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Radio 3,09 Mar 2015,15 mins

SeriesSwimming Stories

Christopher Hope

The Essay

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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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