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Sep 11, 2026

James Agyepong-ParsonsHOST
0:12
We are live today from the Rivers Summit Festival.
James Agyepong-ParsonsHOST
0:16
New location, Henley-on-Thames, new time of the month, it is September, but the people are here, the policy awaits, so let's dive right in.
Shosha AdieMODERATOR
0:27
This panel, as Claire has already said, is about regulating rivers for the future.
James Agyepong-ParsonsHOST
0:31
Regular listeners to the show will know that voice.
Frank HickeyGUEST
17:42
Tall Trees runs in the Mayhill on Thursday so Tall Trees is wins or runs really well and that would be a very good pointer towards victoria night here um to go back and watch the race she looked massive compared to tall trees you think she'll have to improve the experience she traveled all over just a bit of experience tall trees seemed to play out that day and stand turn it just stuck her neck out and won a neck um she has promising rivals here obviously the the price tags on them we'll take a go one to beat her now it's a victorian night and then in the nursery the 445 washington no
Patrick KennellyHOST
18:15
no no no no no no don't give me the horse that you fancy i think you might have said the first word there but surely if you're going to fancy one seeing as you consider yourself upper middle class upper middle class there's a horse in that race called henley on thames now i'd like to think that you'd be going to the regattas and all that sort of stuff in the henley on thames if you are upper middle class so off you go tell us why henley on thames wins that race upper middle class
Frank HickeyGUEST
18:37
come here what's what's the what's the rowing stronghold of ireland should we cork skipperine correct yeah doesn't mean regattas and stuff can sail good for the yachting you just
Patrick KennellyHOST
18:48
need you just need to pull like a dog
CherryGUEST
4:05
So I'm based in Ipswich and Suffolk.
CherryGUEST
4:07
I've been in Henley-on-Thames, Lincolnshire, Bury, St. Edmunds, down to Essex.
Ben ChambersHOST
3:08
A London walk subtitled Green Chain 10 placed to Palace.
Ben ChambersHOST
3:13
You could also have rambled from Reading to Henley on the Thames Path.
Ben ChambersHOST
3:18
Or if you were in the Swindon area, Barbary Castle to Avebury.
Ben ChambersHOST
3:22
There was also a Wareham Forest Walk 2.
Tanya RoseHOST
0:45
The wonderful couple, the acting couple, is Lucy Fleming and Simon Williams.
Tanya RoseHOST
0:55
Their faces and voices will be known to all of you, but especially to the local Henley residents, because you're locals, aren't you? We are.
Tanya RoseHOST
1:04
Very near locals, anyway.
Tanya RoseHOST
1:05
Well,
Expat AndyHOST
6:15
The tidal floodgates are still there.
Expat AndyHOST
6:26
The Oxford and Cambridge boat race began in 1829, first ran at Henley-on-Thames after a challenge between two former school friends, Charles Merrivale of Cambridge and Charles Wordsworth of Oxford, nephew of the poet.
Expat AndyHOST
6:41
It moved to London for the second race in 1836, settled at Putney in 1845, and has been held annually since 1856.
Expat AndyHOST
6:52
The granite starting stone outside the Duke's Head sits 423 feet upstream of Putney Bridge.
KylieHOST
40:31
Thank you so much for all of you for getting in touch with us with your calls and all your comments.
KylieHOST
40:36
Next week, Any Questions is in Henley-on-Thames.
KylieHOST
40:39
Thank you very much indeed for listening.
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40:43
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Alex ForsythHOST
52:27
We are out of time.
Alex ForsythHOST
52:28
It just leaves me to tell you that next week we will be in Henley-on-Thames.
Alex ForsythHOST
52:31
The week after that, we will be in St Austell.
Alex ForsythHOST
52:33
But from here in Bury, thank you so much to our audience.
Amy PaonessaNARRATOR
41:20
I wait by the reeds on the footpath.
Amy PaonessaNARRATOR
41:23
Sunrise sparkles off the Thames, and even the dogwalkers aren't up yet in Henley-on-Thames.
Amy PaonessaNARRATOR
41:30
Long-tailed tits tweet to one another in a white blossom tree in the field beside the wide brown river.
Amy PaonessaNARRATOR
41:37
Jack passes beneath a huge willow where a small sinking boat is moored.
Neil WestGUEST
5:17
kitchen,
Tim TuckerHOST
5:18
first of all, and then finished in the summer of 1988 at the Friar Park studio that Harrison owned in Henley-on-Thames.
Tim TuckerHOST
5:25
It was released on the album Travelling Wilburys Volume 1 on the 24th of October 1988 in the UK, actually earlier in the US, 18th of October 1988.
Tim TuckerHOST
5:36
It rose very quickly to number three on the Billboard chart, selling two million in its first six months and went on to be a triple platinum album in the US, reached number 16 in the UK and overall sold over five million copies worldwide.

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