Annabel Dunston is a swimming nut, and is part fish. As the title suggests she is in the sea - the English channel to be exact - all year round, unlike Rodney who only swims in the summer. Tanya however, doesn't float and has had Green Peace intercept Japanese whaling vessels on her behalf before now.

In this opening episode the dingbats talk to Annabel Dunstan. Annabel’s a wild swimmer that got tired of swimming in rivers, mostly because she’d swam in them all. Then did a bunch of lakes and thought, “stuff it I’m off to Brighton to swim in the sea all year round.” And we don’t just mean a paddle for ten minutes and then a drip dry on the pebbles in the sun. This lady is part fish. She swims at the very least three times a week, and a minimum distance of 2.5km a session, weather and water conditions permitting.

Annabel talks us through her very personal reasons for getting into swimming in the first place. The myriad of health benefits she believes is gained from it, and the cold-water emersion therapy that happens as a by-product of regularly swimming in the sea every week. We also talk about the do’s and don’ts of swimming, as well as what she thinks about when distance swimming, of which she’s a veteran.

It's a great first guest for series two and yet another enlightening episode, for the return of “the best podcast to come out of Brighton and Hove and Woking.” Someone will say it about the show at some point… if we pay them enough. The dynamic dumbo’s are back, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

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