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,...
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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
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
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
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
Oct 30, 20221 min read
MOON-SWIMMING AND SWIMMING IN MOONLIGHT BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
If you haven’t already swum outdoors in full moonlight, you must. It is one of life’s priceless un-buyable treasures. There are twelve...
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
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
Mar 13, 20223 min read
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...
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,...
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