This week, various authors remember a significant swimming experience:
1. Novelist Christopher Hope describes a Pretoria swimming pool of his youth, where, if things got too much, he'd happily sink to the bottom and stay there a while. Letting things pass over him...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
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