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Spiritual themes explored through music, prose and poetry.

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

Something Understood: 16/01/2010

16/01/2010

BBC World Service - Something Understood, 16/01/2010

Wild swimming: Sarah Cuddon reflects on what draws people into the open water.

Wild Swimming: writer Sarah Cuddon regularly finds herself turning country walks into hunts for secluded swimming spots. Like Huckleberry Finn and countless other literary figures – both real and imagined – she is drawn to open water. With reference to Lord Byron, Irish Murdoch, and other writers "hungry for water," she considers the physical and spiritual aspects of "wild swimming" and she talks to Kate Rew, founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society, about her experiences in English lakes, foreign rivers and the open sea.

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