18.04.2024 - Indoor Meeting : The Swimmer

Speaker: Patrick Barkham
Reporter: Sue Gale

April brings the AGM, which can often seem a bit dry, but as usual the AGM business was dispatched in a few minutes and we moved on to one of the most entertaining talks we have enjoyed for a long time. ‘The Swimmer’ is the title of Patrick Barkham’s latest book – a biography of Roger Deakin who was an environmentalist among many other things and is credited with starting the current enthusiasm for wild swimming with his own book ‘Waterlog’. Indeed, the black Speedos he wore when swimming across Britain are to be found in the library at UEA!

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