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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...

Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddle were undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. They both took up wild swimming together while...

Karen Throsby is a swimmer and a sociologist – Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. Her intellectual credentials are...

So many cold water swimmers are non-conformists, but who would have thought of it as a political act? Grace Wright-Arora carried out...

Conversations that flow through the water, from mother to daughter and back again, almost dream-like. In this podcast I am in...

Anna Deacon is a photographer of considerable repute, her work appearing in a who’s who of UK journalism – The Times, The Guardian, The...

Of the most regular, everyday swimming places for me, ever since I realised that I didn’t need to drive hours to the coast to get a ‘good...

There are more bubbles on the water than ever before. This is a good thing – under Covid-19 guidelines, there is a new verb – ‘to...

As lock-down eases, somewhat uneasily, there was a moonlight swim locally. With Kristie, Judy, Jeremy, and Pauline, in a new-rules group...