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...
top of page
Search
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
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
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
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 20, 20226 min read
THE SECOND GREAT STINK? SWIMMING RIVERS IN A MESS
‘I can feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes’ – ‘The water’s all around me, and so the feeling grows…’ Waking up from a dream, me...
LXVswim
Dec 24, 20216 min read
CHRISTMAS SWIMMING AND RITUAL – ON A TALK BY AUTHOR MADELEINE BUNTING
I saw three swimmers go swimming by On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; I saw three swimmers go swimming by On Christmas Day in the...
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
Apr 13, 20213 min read
SWIMMING TOGETHER ALONE – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY SWIM 2021, WITH ANNA DEACON
It was a great privilege to share a podcasting platform with the inspirational Anna Deacon just recently. Anna is a photographer of...
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
Jan 8, 20215 min read
A POLAR BEAR IN THE BATH TUB?
It was the start of Lockdown Three, and I was determined not to take it lying down. Facilities across the land closed down, and when...
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...
bottom of page