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World Service,15 Sep 2018,9 mins

Tom Gregory - The 11-Year-Old who Swam the Channel

Sporting Witness

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In September 1988, 11-year-old South London schoolboy Tom Gregory set a world record that still stands for being the youngest swimmer to cross the English Channel. He has just published a memoir entitled "A Boy In The Water". Tom Gregory talks to Simon Watts. (Photo: Tom Gregory. Credit: Penguin Books)

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