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LXVswim
Feb 41 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - CHARLOTTE SAWYER, AGGIE NYAGARI, AND THEIR SWIM FILM ‘RAVE ON FOR THE AVON’
Listen to the podcast here Charlotte Sawyer is a documentary film maker and photographer who captures cinematic stories that cross...


LXVswim
Dec 23, 20241 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – SARAH GILES, ON OXFORD, SWIMMING AND INEQUALITY
Listen here Sarah Giles lives and swims in open water in Oxford. She is Programme Development Manager at SportExcel UK, a sports...


LXVswim
Sep 22, 20241 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – STANLEY ULIJASZEK AND SWIMMING IN THE SHIRE
This podcast is about swims in the Shire - Tolkien’s Oxfordshire. I have no idea if Tolkien was a swimmer, but there is plenty of...


LXVswim
Apr 23, 20234 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - POOP POLLUTION POLITICS BY STANLEY ULIJASZEK
The gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both...


LXVswim
Jan 2, 20234 min read
I’M SORRY, SAY THAMES WATER, FOR RUINING YOUR SWIMS
I could feel it all over again this Christmas, the sense of deja-vu, of raw sewage running between my fingers and toes. The Oxford DODO...

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
Apr 18, 20225 min read
COPENHAGEN SWIMMING AND TOGS FOR A PANDEMIC RECYCLED
It somehow feels right to leave my stripy togs in Copenhagen to be recycled. On the last day here, after nearly three years away, I put...


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
Nov 19, 20213 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – DUNCAN GOODHEW, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, & THE STATE OF SWIMMING IN THE UK
What do Olympic Gold and Bronze medal winner Duncan Goodhew, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, and Captain Matthew Webb, the first...


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
Jul 19, 20214 min read
SWIMMINGPOD – KELP FOREST DIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH BEN COUSINS
Ben Cousins is 72 years old and is passionate about the ocean – he has surfed it, swum in it, and now free dives in and around the ocean...
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