Wild swimming and student life. Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddell

Wild swimming and student life. Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddell in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek

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Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddle were undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. They both took up wild swimming together while at Oxford. Annie grew up on a farm in Hampshire while Vera grew up in Bulgaria. Both had a love of swimming before coming to Oxford, and both have taken their love of swimming with them. In this podcast we discuss the value that open water and winter swimming bring to brain work and to everyday student life.

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