Rivers

Arts & Ideas. Rivers and geopolitics. Audio, 45 minutes
Global Dams, Ancient Rome & the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
The Essay. From the Source, Medway Mudlarks. Audio, 14 minutes
Driftwood, a Victorian poison bottle and a sailor's lost boot. Potent inspiration for art.
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BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
The Essay. From the Source, Gaelic Waters. Audio, 14 minutes
Folk singer Julie Fowlis conjures kelpies, selkies and waterfall banshees from Gaelic song
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BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Your pictures on the theme of 'rivers and streams'
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In Pictures
Posted
10 May 2019
Dried-up river revived. Video, 00:01:01
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Somerset
Posted
25 April 2019
Athens to open up ancient river
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News from Elsewhere
Posted
27 February 2019
Boy rescued from river amid warm spell
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Cumbria
Posted
27 February 2019
Thousands of fish found dead in Australia. Video, 00:01:00
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Australia
Posted
9 January 2019
It has a therapy to it - former JLS popstar JB Gill takes a river walk
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Get Inspired
Posted
10 December 2018
Welsh rivers farm pollution 'embarrassing'
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Wales
Posted
14 November 2018
Costing the Earth. March of the Wet Wipes. Audio, 28 minutes
Our sewerage system is grinding to a halt. The culprits are wet wipes.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
'Why I go paddleboarding with my cat' Video, 00:01:37
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Suffolk
Posted
8 September 2018
40 year wait for young fish finally over
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Wales
Posted
8 September 2018
Sewage released into river at beauty spot
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Leeds & West Yorkshire
Posted
31 July 2018
Hot summer leading to 'toxic' algae
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Scotland
Posted
16 July 2018
Narrow boaters cross estuary for festival
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Beds, Herts & Bucks
Posted
14 July 2018
Foam pollution kills thousands of fish
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Beds, Herts & Bucks
Posted
6 July 2018
Stretch of river vanishes amid heatwave
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Hereford & Worcester
Posted
5 July 2018
Fish rescued as river dries up in heatwave. Video, 00:00:50
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Hereford & Worcester
Posted
2 July 2018
'Mad' narrow boaters to cross The Wash
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Beds, Herts & Bucks
Posted
24 June 2018
Prescription drugs contaminating rivers
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York & North Yorkshire
Posted
12 June 2018
Plogging tackles Derry plastic pollution
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Northern Ireland
Posted
6 June 2018
What lives in the River Foyle?
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Foyle & West
Posted
21 May 2018
Fish death toll 'higher than 100,000'
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Lincolnshire
Posted
8 May 2018