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Chris Baker on life, love, memory and taking the plunge in 'Swimming Sydney'

Chris Baker on life, love, memory and taking the plunge in 'Swimming Sydney'

Update: 2024-11-02
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Swimming Sydney is a tale of 52 swims in and around Sydney that take place over a calendar year. From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi, Chris Baker swims at iconic beaches, municipal pools, harbour baths, tidal rock pools, bushland lakes and a backyard pool. Taking his weekly plunges, Baker reflects on friendship, history and family, and how swimming can help us better understand ourselves.

Swimming Sydney is a valentine to the beautiful obsession of swimming in the world’s most beautiful city. It’s a book for everyone who loves swimming, who loves Sydney, and who understands that storytelling is the best way to navigate life’s emotional currents.

In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Chris Baker about what swimming means to him, how swimming connects us to people, place, community and history, and why his favourite swim is a place of memory and remembrance.
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Chris Baker on life, love, memory and taking the plunge in 'Swimming Sydney'

Chris Baker on life, love, memory and taking the plunge in 'Swimming Sydney'

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