While trawling around of the interweb the other day. The Urban Swimmer came across the following fascinating discussion of swimming in the archives BBC radio 4's pseudo travel show "Excess Baggage". Remarkably this show was recorded in 2007, but can still be played. God bless the BBC, it's rare moments like this that makes TUS proud to be an Englishman (cue HMS Pinafore music).
The show is hosted by comedian and semi-professional London institution Arthur Smith. He talks to writers Charles Sprawson and Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen (both of whose books sound fascinating) and an endurance swimmer about Romantic poets, the Hellespont, swimming in sub-zero temperatures, seedy Roman bathhouses, William Randolph Hearst and the sort of philosophical aquatic meanderings that well, you usually find in this blog. Enjoy. Readers may also wish to check out the podcast on diving which also includes a fair bit about swimming too. That's here. They play best through RealPlayer.
Also came across a podcast of Lynn Sherr talking about her book Swim: Why We Love the Water which came out a few weeks ago on the Slate Magazine website.
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