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CanalCast: The Canal & River Trust Podcast

CanalCast: The Canal & River Trust Podcast

By: Canal & River Trust
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CanalCast is our podcast series where we discuss the big issues we're helping to tackle.


From our health and wellbeing to our economy, from our city spaces to wildlife recovery and climate change, we’ll discover the critical role canals play in shaping all of our futures. We'll also explore just how vital and vulnerable Britain’s inland waterways really are.


Joining host Louis Howell, a Canal & River Trust Council member and Chair of our Youth Engagement Advisory Group, we’ll be virtually travelling around all 2,000 miles of our canal network.


Louis will catch up with our experts to discover the huge impact of our work and why we need support, now more than ever, to tackle some of the biggest challenges we face.

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Episodes
  • Episode 6: Managing an 18th century network in a 21st century world

    Episode 6: Managing an 18th century network in a 21st century world
    Nov 25 2021
    In the final episode of our first series of CanalCast, Louis looks at how the Canal & River Trust manages an18th-century network in a 21st-century world. Trust experts explain how we plan and prioritise the maintenance work on our waterways and the challenges we face keeping an ageing network operating smoothly for thousands of boaters and millions of visitors.

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    35 mins
  • Episode 5: Our heritage and collections

    Episode 5: Our heritage and collections
    Sep 22 2021
    In this episode, Louis discusses the three ages of the canals and how, at over 200-years-old, our canals are still operational and working harder than ever before. Trust experts discuss how we can keep our industrial heritage alive and well through preservation work, even with its challenges and complications, and how our collections and museums keep canal stories from the past alive.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 4: Boats and Boating

    Episode 4: Boats and Boating
    Jul 16 2021
    This episode looks at the boats and boaters that are the lifeblood of our canals. Louis discovers how boaters helped to rescue our canals and the vital role they play in helping us all enjoy the canals today. He discovers how our team of experts look after the boating community; from how we work hard every day to keep our canals and locks open for everyone, to supporting the wellbeing of live aboard boaters.

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    34 mins
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