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22ÌýAprilÌý2006
SWIMMINGÌý
This week Sandi Toksvig discusses swimming and diving holidays - exploring what it is about the waves on top and the mysterious world below the sea that attracts swimmers and divers to take the plunge.Ìý
THIS WEEK'S GUESTS:
Trevor Norton, Professor of Marine biology discusses the history and seduction of diving, author of Under the Water to Get Out of the Rain and Stars ÌýBeneath The Sea
Simon Muire, founder of Swimtrek a company which organises swimming holidays, is an avid swimmer and discusses the attraction and organisation of Ìýswimming holidays.
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Rob Fryer, Chairman of the River and Lake Swimming Association is passionate about swimming outdoors and is compiling a book of alluring locations Ìýaround the UK - details of which he shares with Sandi.
Louise Trewavas, a diving instructor in London and regularly contributes to "Dive" Magazine, discusses some of her most exciting dives in exotic Ìýlocations around the world and her interest in looking for shipwrecks.Ìý
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
More information on this weeks guests:Ìý
Under the Water to Get Out of the Rain
Publisher: Century
ISBN: 0712638849ÌýÌý
and
Stars Beneath The Sea
Publisher:Arrow
ISBN:0099405091
by Trevor Norton,
Professor ofÌýÌýat Liverpool University
Rob Fryer, Chairman ofÌý. They increase public awareness that swimming in open water is a healthy and ecologically friendly sport.
0151 428 3990Ìý
Simon Muire, founder ofÌý a company which organises swimming holidays
Ìýpromote underwater exploration, science and safety in sport diving
, is the English national governing body for swimming, diving, water polo, open water and synchronised swimmingÌý
Ìýis the national governing body for swimming, masters, diving, water polo, open water and synchronised swimming in Scotland.
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 Sandi Toksvig:
The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi has been travelling all her life more info |
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John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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