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Swimming Stories

Episode 2: Antonia Quirke

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

This week, various authors remember a significant swimming experience:

2. Antonia Quirke enjoys a gentle dip in the South Pacific, but alludes to some
darker waters of her childhood and also some swims in England's gravel pits.
Plus, the ocean with Spielberg's Jaws in it is 40 years old this year...

Producer Duncan Minshull. Show less

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