Radio address for Jan 5th, 2013. The new year marks the end of Swaledale’s “trials” (the good kind) and finds us with more tea than we know what to do with.

I did this address on my phone (you can probably tell from the sound quality). January is a busy month for me, so I’ll probably be keeping things simple production-wise.

Stay warm!

Radio address for Saturday, December 15, 2012. There are few things that can persuade us to go for a run in the cold, but they invariably find us out sooner or later.

Music is Man on Fire by Ed Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, and Caliban’s Dream from the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (a really great running song by the way). The recorded dialogue in the middle is an excerpt from the movie Chariots of Fire.

Radio address for December 3rd, 2012. I went for a walk in the woods by the cabin on a moonlit night.

The poetry used in this radio address was a hand-selected little compilation of Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost; an excerpt from a relatively little-known poem called The Planets by C.S. Lewis (who was recently given a posthumous spot in Westminster Abbey’s famous Poets’ Corner); and The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell, which he wrote in prison during the late 1500s.

Music is Dreams are Dangerous and Reunion from Coraline, Red Route 1 from Hunt for the Red October, and You Are the Pan from Hook.

I found out after writing this episode that on the night I finished it, Jupiter was crossing paths with the moon which was very full — a lovely coincidence. People took some amazing photos from that night — two of my favourites are shown here.

Nov 26, 2012 photo of Jupiter near the moon over Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin by Migizi Gichigumi

Photo of the moon and Jupiter together on Nov 28 2012, by Cattleya Flores Viray in San Diego

Complete Library Now Available

As mentioned in the podcast, you can now download (or order) the entire back-catalog of Howell Creek Radio episodes — nine hours of audio.

Radio address for Nov. 24, 2012. Every year at about this time I remember the winters I’m glad I’ve left far behind.

The text of the second part of this address is from a post titled Dratted Days, which I published in January 2004 on my personal website at JDueck.Net. Trixie and I have just finished a new design for that site and relaunched it under a new name: The Local Yarn. Check it out!

Music for this episode is Winning a Battle, Losing the War by Kings of Convenience, an Wolf by First Aid Kit.

Radio address for November 11, 2012. I elaborate upon my ideal of a college and the search for a lifestyle of literacy.

The title was perhaps given with Sherlock Holmes’ “The Woman” in mind; as well as references like this in That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis:

“‘Of course,’ said Merlin. ‘And that was how I knew you were of the College. Is it not our pass-word all over the earth?’”¹

Mention is made of A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken², and of a blog post called Rediscovering Literacy by Venkat Rao.

Music is Anon: Tolling of the Knell, from Early Music by Kronos Quartet; and A Window to the Past from the soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by John Williams.