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Christopher Hope
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This week, various authors remember a significant swimming experience:
1. Novelist Christopher Hope describes a Pretoria swimming pool
of his youth, where, if things got too much, he'd happily sink to the
bottom and stay there a while. Letting things pass over him...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
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Mon 22 Aug 201622:45
BBC Radio 3
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