SWIMMINGPOD – TOM ELLIOTT AND RICHARD FLINT AND SWIM-FILM 'AS YOU LAKE IT'
Tom Elliott and Danny Longman swam all the lakes of the Lake District in four days, and Richard Flint filmed them. Sounds simple, but of...
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LXVswim
Feb 14, 20223 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DYLAN FRIEDMANN AND A YEAR OF SWIMMING AND DIPPING DAILY IN LAKE ONTARIO, CANADA
If you want to find Dylan Friedmann on a cold, cold, Toronto winter’s morning, it’s quite easy in some ways. First get up before dawn,...
LXVswim
Jan 4, 20226 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - JOHN VON DUFFEL AND JAMES NORTON ON CHARLES SPRAWSON’S ‘HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR'
Do you swim crawl? Do you swim to music in your head? If so, try swimming to Glenn Miller’s ‘In the Mood’. Not easy – it’s either too...
LXVswim
Nov 19, 20213 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – DUNCAN GOODHEW, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, & THE STATE OF SWIMMING IN THE UK
What do Olympic Gold and Bronze medal winner Duncan Goodhew, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, and Captain Matthew Webb, the first...
LXVswim
Oct 15, 20212 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – SWIMMING, LEPTOSPIROSIS AND ME – A ‘NIGHT AT THE OPERA’, BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
I am back in the water, not without anxiety I have to say. The experience of leptospirosis was a bit of a drama for me, and I don’t think...
LXVswim
Sep 27, 20213 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – ANETTE FRISCH AND MINDFUL SWIMMING
I talked with Anette Frisch about life, work, swimming, the future and the past and it became a podcast. We recorded it when the COVID-19...
LXVswim
Aug 28, 20213 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – PAULINE BARKER AND THE POLAR BEAR (AND PENGUIN) CHALLENGE
It is late August, a time of year when summer is coming close to ending, and when I start to look forward to winter again. I used to...
LXVswim
Jul 19, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – KELP FOREST DIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH BEN COUSINS
Ben Cousins is 72 years old and is passionate about the ocean – he has surfed it, swum in it, and now free dives in and around the ocean...
LXVswim
Jun 28, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – GRUMPY OLD SWIMMING, WITH JUDITH HOLDER
A few years ago, a woman in a red dressing-gown turned up at the swimming area at Lake Hardwick, at eight in the morning. She took out a...
LXVswim
Jun 4, 20215 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – BERLIN SWIMMING SPREE - CAITLIN KRAEMER AND SWIMMING IN THE CITY
Berlin is many cities at once, all in progress. Caitlin Kraemer knows many of these cities, but the one she is interested in from an...
LXVswim
May 17, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - ANNA DEACON AND ‘TAKING THE PLUNGE’
Anna Deacon is a photographer of considerable repute, her work appearing in a who’s who of UK journalism – The Times, The Guardian, The...
LXVswim
Apr 30, 20213 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DARRIN ROLES AND THE OXFORDSHIRE LOCK TO LOCK SWIM EVENTS
Darrin Roles is Eynsham man and boy. I have lived in Eynsham only since 1999, and have met him a number of times, increasingly so in the...
LXVswim
Apr 13, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – JULIET TURNBULL SWIMMING AND SINGING THE THAMES
‘She came in through the bathroom window’- the song welled up from the deep as I stumbled to the bathroom this morning, before any tea...
LXVswim
Mar 16, 20217 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – BLUETITS CHILL SWIMMERS, WITH FOUNDER SIAN RICHARDSON
The season is turning toward spring proper. The morning swims increasingly start in daylight or twilight and are accompanied by a flood...
LXVswim
Feb 26, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – ALEX FOSTER AND AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF A SWIMMING CLUB
Alex Foster spent the winter months of 2019-2020 learning about winter swimming and cold water immersion at the Serpentine Swimming Club,...
LXVswim
Feb 16, 20213 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – NOSTALGIA FOR LAKE BLED WITH JEREMY WELLINGHAM AND STANLEY ULIJASZEK
’It was twenty years ago today…’ so went the song, nostalgia from the first line, like the conversation I had with Jeremy about the...
LXVswim
Dec 22, 20204 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – FROST SWIMMERS OF GOTHENBERG, SWEDEN – 100 DAGARKALLABAD
Bada bada bada, Varje dag, Bada bada bada, Varje dag, Bada Ja, Bada Ja, Bada bada bada, Varje dag! It is less of poetry than of trance...
LXVswim
Dec 9, 20208 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – SWIMMING COPENHAGEN-STYLE, WITH ANNE KATRINE KLEBERG HANSEN
I dreamed of swimming last night – in Copenhagen, a place denied to me in this year of coronavirus. I have been coming to Copenhagen...
LXVswim
Nov 22, 20204 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – KRISTIE WALLER AND JUDY PEARSALL, WOMEN WHO SWIM TOGETHER
It is November, and Lockdown Two, which thankfully permits outdoor swimming as long as it is not at a venue. Hardwick Lake is closed for...
LXVswim
Nov 12, 20205 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – SWIM THE THAMES, WITH SEF PENROSE, JEREMY WELLINGHAM, CHRIS DALTON AND SHARON CURTIS
Most good ideas start with a conversation. This particular idea started with Sef and Jeremy mulling over swimming into the River Thames....
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