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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
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
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...
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