SWIMMINGPOD - WEST OXFORDSHIRE SWIMMING LAKE WITH EMMA GIBBARD AND CARL TYSOM
Emma Gibbard and Carl Tysom are both passionate about open water swimming, and are both involved in overseeing swimming at the West...
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LXVswim
Sep 51 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - STANLEY ULIJASZEK, MEMORIES LIKE WATER AND THE FIRST OF 65 SWIMS
Five years ago I undertook 65 swims in different places at the age of 65 years. I have written a book about it, entitled ‘Memories like...
LXVswim
Jul 281 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - HELEN EDWARDS’ RIVER-BASED EXHIBITION IN OXFORD ‘BREATHING OF LIFE’
Helen Edwards is an ecological artist, dancer, and swimmer. I am with her at her solo exhibition at Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre,...
LXVswim
Jul 231 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - STANLEY’S 70TH BIRTHDAY SWIM PARTY
It’s not clear if life begins at 70, but life does start in water. The bible says three score and ten, 70 years, so from now on, life is...
LXVswim
Jun 301 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DIVING FREE, DIVING DEEP, WITH SAM MILLWARD
Sam Millward is a scuba and freediving instructor, fascinated by the mental, physical and experiential benefits that all forms of...
LXVswim
Apr 191 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - LEVEL WATER CEO IAN THWAITES
A rising tide lifts all boats (and swimmers). Level water means equal rights. In the case of Ian Thwaites and the charity Level Water,...
LXVswim
Mar 231 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - RAMIN CYRUS, SWIMMING AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
Ramin Cyrus has swum a channel relay, the Thames Marathon at Henley and other big swims, all great achievements. Powerful achievements,...
LXVswim
Dec 13, 20231 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – WILD SWIMMING AND STUDENT LIFE, WITH VERA PROKOPIEVA AND ANNIE LIDDELL
Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddle were undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. They both took up wild swimming together while...
LXVswim
Oct 3, 20231 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – PAUL ATHERTON, OUTDOOR SWIMMING AND CREATIVITY
Paul Atherton is a filmmaker and Londoner. He produced and directed The Ballet of Change , four short films that were projected onto...
LXVswim
Aug 19, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – KAREN THROSBY AND MARATHON SWIMMING
Karen Throsby is a swimmer and a sociologist – Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. Her intellectual credentials are...
LXVswim
Jul 3, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – GEORGIE MILNER ON SWIMMING AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Access is an important issue everywhere. People of all creeds and backgrounds swim. A few months before recording this podcast I was in...
LXVswim
Apr 23, 20234 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - POOP POLLUTION POLITICS BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
The gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both...
LXVswim
Mar 10, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – THE SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB AND THE INTERNATIONAL MARATHON SWIMMING HALL OF FAME
In May 2022, the Serpentine Swimming Club was inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame – IMSHOF in short. This is a...
LXVswim
Jan 13, 20232 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – GRACE WRIGHT-ARORA, AND COLD WATER SWIMMING AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
So many cold water swimmers are non-conformists, but who would have thought of it as a political act? Grace Wright-Arora carried out...
LXVswim
Dec 21, 20222 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - A WINTER SWIMMING BRIEFING, GIVEN BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK, FRAMED BY JEREMY WELLINGHAM
Cometh December, cometh the DODO Swim, in Oxford, at Port Meadow. From the Dodo Tree, now reduced to a stump after being struck by...
LXVswim
Sep 9, 20222 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – JULIET TURNBULL AND ‘OPEN WATER – SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE’
It is September, and time to take stock of the summer season of open water swimming. While countless thousands have enjoyed the water...
LXVswim
Aug 18, 20221 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - WILD OPEN SWIM, WITH KATH FOTHERINGHAM, FIONA UNDRILL AND DARRIN ROLES
The Wild Open Swim Blog is the organised work of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford...
LXVswim
Jul 13, 20222 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - TESS AND JUDY BIRD, SWIMMING IN CONNECTICUT
Conversations that flow through the water, from mother to daughter and back again, almost dream-like. In this podcast I am in...
LXVswim
Jun 2, 20221 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – ADAPTIVE ATHLETE SOPHIE ETHERIDGE AND THE TWO-WAY WINDERMERE
I am truly humbled by Sophie Etheridge, and will never ever complain again about the aches and pains in my joints. Sophie is an adaptive...
LXVswim
Apr 18, 20225 min read
COPENHAGEN SWIMMING AND TOGS FOR A PANDEMIC RECYCLED
It somehow feels right to leave my stripy togs in Copenhagen to be recycled. On the last day here, after nearly three years away, I put...
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