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...

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...

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...

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...

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...