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SwimmingpodStanley Ulijaszek on Swimming and Summer Solstice RitualsA warm June, 2025; a similarly warm June 2020, but in very different circumstances, both times greeting the solstice sun with a swim. Five years since the pandemic, Stanley Ulijaszekreflects in this podcast on summer solstice swimming and other rituals attached to this time of year at Oxford, both then, and now.
2025-12-1618 min
SwimmingpodSwimming and Cake in London, with Susanna Bowers and Stanley UlijaszekIn this episode of Swimmingpod, Stanley Ulijaszek is with cake and pastry specialist Susanna Bowers, swimming at the London Fields and Brockwell Lidos , and eating cake and pastries at Pophams Bakery, Maya’s Bakehouse, and the lido cafe at Brockwell. In doing so, they explore the intimate connection between swimming and cake in London, a city of lidos and bakeries. They read from the Lido Guide, by Janet Wilkinson and Emma Pusill, and from Libby Page's novel The Lido, set in Brixton and Brockwell Lido. There is a literarytheme too – with Tolkein and Lord of the Rings, and L...
2025-11-2632 min
SwimmingpodSwimming and Cake in Oxford, with Susanna Bowers and Stanley UlijaszekSwimming and cake is a natural combination for many outdoor swimmers. In this episode of Swimmingpod, food expert Susanna Bowers joins Stanley Ulijaszek in Oxford to explore both. They swim at Port Meadow from the Dodo Tree; and later from the Tolkien Bench in the University Park, close by Parsons Pleasure and what was once Dames Delight. Cake is eaten before swimming, then at St Cross College after the first swim, and at the Randolph Hotel after the second swim. Water and food in the fiction works of University of Oxford Professors Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll...
2025-11-1722 min
SwimmingpodSwimming and Leptospirosis - Stanley UlijaszekI never expected to suffer from leptospirosis, although I know that it is a risk. A comment I sometimes hear from passers-by while swimming in the river is “you know you can get Weil’s Disease, don’t you?” My internal response, never spoken, is “Yes, but…” it is so rare that it is hardly on my swimmer’s radar. In retrospect I am surprised by how it took me by surprise when I got it, even though I thought I knew what it looks like. The lived experience of a disease is always very different to what it says in the text...
2025-10-1730 min
SwimmingpodSwim For Your Life - Lake Bullen Merri, AustraliaThe volcanic Lake Bullen Merri is in Victoria, Australia, cloverleafed in shape. A little over two and a half kilometers across. Swimming here, Stanley Ulijaszek was struck by its deep history, and the history of the aboriginal Djargurd Wurrung peoples here, who were resettled in the late nineteenth century. There is a distressing swimming story here, involving the female leader of these people, Queen Fanny, the name given to her by the Europeans; real name Bareetch Chuurneen. There was a massacre at Lake Bullen Merri in 1839, and Bareetch Chuurneen got away, swimmingacross Lake Bullen Merri with the young child...
2025-09-2713 min
SwimmingpodStanley Ulijaszek and Swimming in Australia at QueenscliffeStanley Ulijaszek offers some reflections about swimming in Victoria in Australia on the coast at Queenscliffe. On a beautifulbeach, long and stretching towards a point to the left and another to theright, at Point Lonsdale. A swim with a Hopper-esque sailboat sailing in gentlebut business-like fashion, in front of the lighthouse that signals the pointwhere Australia lost a Prime Minister to the water and to the waves. RustCloud, Richard Serra, rusted iron slabs of sails sculpted by the wind. Strongerout there than here in gentle crawl parallel to the sandy shore. What three wordstell the world...
2025-04-2007 min
SwimmingpodSwimming around Bristol, with Stanley UlijaszekThere is a lot of good swimming to be had in the Bristolregion, with several vibrant and active outdoor swimming scenes in the region - in the city itself, but also in the nearby River Avon, in the River Brue, in the Avon estuary, and in the sea at sand point. If you can go a mile or ten out of Bristol there is a lot of choice - at Weston Super Mare there are several lido beaches to choose. River swimming at Bradford upon Avon (the river Avon upstream) is a scenic delight. People really care about their...
2025-03-0627 min
SwimmingpodCharlotte Sawyer and Aggie Nyagari, with their swim film ‘Rave on for the Avon’Charlotte Sawyer is a documentary film maker and photographer who captures cinematic stories that cross cultures and boundaries. She has worked in conflict zones and places vulnerable to climate change, notably Iraq, Ethiopia and Nigeria. Aggie Nyagari is a Kenyan film
and TV director, who brings the diversity of her life experiences into her work. Charlotte and Aggie both live, swim and work in Bristol. Together they have made a
beautiful new film - Rave On for the Avon - capturing the Conham Bathing Group communities love for their river, and their fight for to gain Bathing Water Quality...
2025-02-0224 min
SwimmingpodStanley Ulijaszek and London Open Water SwimmingThis podcast is about open water swimming in London – given
how urban this global city is, it is not immediately obvious that this is a great place for open water swimming. Indeed, there is a thriving open water swimming scene. More accurately, there are several open water swimming scenes in London - in rivers (usually the River Thames), lakes, ponds, and outdoor pools. Here are four personal accounts of swimming in London in river, pond, lake and pool, respectively. These are: from Teddington to Richmond, in the Thames; in the Ponds at Hampstead Heath; at the Serpentine Swimming Club in...
2024-12-3029 min
SwimmingpodSarah Giles, on Oxford, Swimming, and InequalitySarah Giles lives and swims in open water in Oxford. She is Programme Development Manager at SportExcel UK,
a sports organisation working with people with learning
disability across the UK in performance/elite sport. She is a passionate open water swimmer all days and all seasons, and a powerful advocate for equality and inclusion. In this podcast we talk about open water swimming in Oxford, and
how revitalising Oxford's former river bathing places could
help address inequalities in swimming in the city.
2024-12-2328 min
SwimmingpodSwimming in Oxford with Stanley UlijaszekThere is a strong tradition of outdoor swimming in Oxford. Writer Iris Murdoch said something like this “On hot days in the Oxford summer my husband and I manage to slip into the Thames, a mile or two above the city. The art is to draw no attention to oneself, but to cruise quietly by the reeds like a water rat". A recent exhibition in Oxford showed a map of bathing places in or close to the city centre, and there were many. There was Wolvercote, Black Jack’s Hole, Fiddler’s Island, Tumbling Bay, the Sheepwash, Boney’s Bridge...
2024-12-1037 min
SwimmingpodDarrin Roles and the Lock to Lock Swim SeriesDarrin Roles started the Lock to Lock a single swim event in the Thames in 2015, and it has grown into a series of events and distances. The first year the event was from Eynsham to King’s Lock (4 kilometers), and in subsequent years, swims from Farmoor to King’s Lock (6 kilometers) and from Farmoor to Godstow Lock (10 kilometers) were introduced. This Wild Swim series is known for being set in locations of natural beauty in West Oxfordshire. In the course of setting up and running
these swims he set up two swim-runs, along the same stretch of the River Tham...
2024-12-0211 min
SwimmingpodStanley Ulijaszek Swimming to Work by the River ThamesThis podcast is about my practice of swimming to work, the last of which took place in 2022 when I retired. A swim to work for me was 8 kilometers, from Eynsham Lock to Port Meadow, Oxford. My final swim to work was on a Friday, when I had been accompanied by several friends, to make it a memorable one. While previous swims to work had started early in the so that I could get to work on time – my work place has a shower and I keep a change of clothes there – this one started at the civilised time of nine...
2024-10-3110 min
SwimmingpodSwimming Haiku with Mike Harris and Jeremy WellinghamJeremy Wellingham and Mike Harris are both open water swimmers, Jeremy in Oxfordshire, Mike in London. Both swim nationally and internationally too. Both write swim-inspired haiku. In this podcast they talk about their swimming experiences, and what it takes to write this Japanese short-form poetry. Water features widely, and thinking poetically shapes their awareness of the environment as they swim.
2024-10-0237 min
SwimmingpodStanley Ulijaszek, and Swimming in The ShireThis podcast is about swims in The Shire - Tolkein’s
Oxfordshire. I have no idea if Tolkien was a swimmer, but there is plenty of evidence to suggest that he liked water. In Lord of the Rings, The Elves have close affinity to water; while Ulmo is the Lord of Water. Ulmo is also the enemy of evil creatures, and therefore water is associated with moral force. The Shire is a place where hobbits live, hobbits being easy-going, liking a quiet life, but who can also handle a big adventure. Most hobbits can’t swim, and most are afrai...
2024-09-2223 min
SwimmingpodWest Oxfordshire Swimming Lake with Emma Gibbard and Carl TysomEmma Gibbard and Carl Tysom are both passionate about open water swimming, and both have been involved in overseeing swimming at the West Oxfordshire Sailing Club, where there is a lake with a one kilometer track, and
dedicated members who swim on a regular basis, many of them through winter, alongside a thriving sailing community. I am also involved in overseeing swimming here. In this podcast we talk about swimming in West Oxfordshire, and about the issues associated with running open water swimming at a small club. Carl had already swum his distance when we found him recovering, in...
2024-09-0925 min
SwimmingpodStanley Ulijaszek - Memories Like WaterFive years ago, Stanley Ulijaszek undertook 65 swims in different places at the age of 65 years. The book 'Memories Like Water’ is a personal account of these swims. A lot of things happened in that year. Going to swim in places known, in places new. Lakes, rivers, oceans. Revisiting places and the memories that have gone with them, revisiting the memories of those
places and reinventing them. In this podcast, Stanley Ulijaszek talks about this swimming journey, and describes the first of these 65 swims, which takes place at the West Oxfordshire Sailing Club swimming lake.
2024-08-3115 min
SwimmingpodHelen Edwards’ River-Based Exhibition in Oxford ‘Breathing of Life’Helen Edwards is an ecological artist, dancer, and swimmer. I am with her at her solo exhibition at Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre, entitled Breathing of Life. She has danced and swum in natural landscapes all her life. Connecting body, breath and imagination, she makes
aesthetic connections with environmental images – in paintings juxtaposed with underwater photography, and film. In her work she likes to bridge art and science, culture and community, all with a focus on water and ecology. She takes her approach to the pragmatics of nature restoration and to environmental projects. In
this podcast we talk about all...
2024-07-2830 min
SwimmingpodStanley Ulijaszek's 70th Birthday Swim PartySwimming outdoors every day, Stanley Ulijaszek celebrated his 70th birthday recently, obviously with a swim and a song, a picnic and cake. Will his guests still swim at 70? This what they said, in turn: Gemma
Ferrier, Jeremy Wellingham, Lizanne Christopher, Blan Walker, Lisa Keeping, Jess Harrold, Steve Banner, Sarah Dilger, Alana Smith, Julie Macken, Kristie Waller, Louisa Maybury, Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles, and Alice O’Leary. The music is Noe Noe, and The Zeppelin, from Blue Dot Sessions.
2024-07-2311 min
SwimmingpodFree Diving and Diving Deep, with Sam MillwardSam Millward is a scuba and freediving instructor, fascinated by the mental, physical and experiential benefits that all forms of immersion can give. In this podcast he describes the different world that free diving is a gateway to. He also describes deep diving, with equipment, and the physiology that goes with it - what your body needs to be able to do. Breathing, breath holding and breath work are all hugely important in diving, whether it be free or deep, and Sam discusses the psycho-physiological states that being able to link mind and body in breathing and diving practices...
2024-06-3051 min
SwimmingpodSwimming and Enablement with Level Water CEO Ian ThwaitesLevel water means equal rights. In the case of Ian Thwaites and the charity Level Water, this is right to water, which swimming is a gateway to. He set up this charity with the mission of giving children with disabilities the opportunity to learn to swim, and by extension, empowers them to take part in a range of water-based activities that swimming opens the gate to. From physical development to social and emotional confidence, swimming is a vehicle to change the lives of children supported by Level Water for the better. Level Water has lots of events, which through...
2024-04-1931 min
SwimmingpodRamin Cyrus, Marathon Swimming Without SightRamin Cyrus has swum a channel relay, the Thames Marathon at Henley and other big swims, all great achievements. Powerful achievements, given that he is visually impaired. While for most open water swimmers,
sighting is a matter of looking up, to work out where they are and to set their course, Ramin Cyrus sights without sight, with the help of great friends in the water, Paul Daniels and Anthony Wood, he is having the swimming time of his life. In this podcast, recorded at the Lido café in London’s Hyde Park, we discuss his swimming achievements, and what it...
2024-03-2319 min
SwimmingpodWild Swimming and Student Life. Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddell in Conversation with Stanley UlijaszekVera 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.
2023-12-1226 min
SwimmingpodPaul Atherton, Outdoor Swimming and CreativityPaul Atherton is a filmmaker and Londoner. He produced and directed The Ballet of Change, four short films that were projected onto London landmarks, most famously Piccadilly Circus in 2007. His video-diary Our London Lives is in the permanent collection of the Museum of London. He took up outdoor swimming at the Serpentine Swimming Club, London, in the Summer of 2023, barely being able to swim 50 meters. Just a couple of months later, he completed a mile and a meter in the race by that name, at that club. In this podcast, over breakfast at the Serpentine Lido Café, we discuss swimmi...
2023-10-0312 min
SwimmingpodKaren Throsby, and a Sociology of Marathon SwimmingKaren Throsby is a swimmer and a sociologist. She is passionate about marathon swimming, and her CV of international distance swims is truly outstanding, taking in the Catalina Channel and Twenty Bridges Swim around Manhatten, as well as the English Channel. In 2008, as she started training for her English Channel solo swim, she took this as a unique opportunity to bring together her combined research and
swimming interests. She wrote a very scholarly book called ‘Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity’, which takes the lid off
of the identity and body-shaping process of becoming a marathon swimmer. In this podc...
2023-08-1921 min
SwimmingpodSocial Exclusion and Swimming, with Georgie Milner
Access is an important issue everywhere. People of all creeds and backgrounds swim. Georgie Milner is a life-long swimmer and is very keen to improve the inclusivity of sport settings. She graduated in Human Sciences from the University of Oxford in 2022, where she completed her dissertation on the intersection of swimming and social exclusion, alongside working on the Oxford University Sports Council as Inclusion and Access Officer. As well as water and inclusion for swimming as sport, she is passionate about refugee rights and water safety. In this podcast, recorded in August 2022, we talk about Georgie’s passion for sw...
2023-07-0317 min
Collecting COVID: Oral HistoriesProfessor Stanley UlijaszekGeorgina Ferry interviews Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, 15 December 2022. Topics discussed include (00:00:39) early interest in science, particularly public health nutrition and nutritional ecology, work in Papua New Guinea, work at the University of Cambridge as a nutritional anthropologist, writings with Simon Strickland; (00:02:28) work with seminal figures in Papua New Guinea; (00:03:17) work on obesity, particularly relating to different pathways to obesity; (00:05:57) elements of the pathways to obesity of interest, work with Foresight obesity think tank; (00:08:19) factors triggering obesity; (00:12:25) methodology and data collection in anthropology; (00:17:21) first awareness of COVID-19; (00:21:27) research question arising out of the pandemic lockdown; (00:23:24) design of the study; (00:24:35...
2023-06-121h 05
SwimmingpodFrancesca Forno, Trento University, talks about 'From grassroots to platform: The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in the online world'Francesca Forno, of Trento University, Italy, gives a presentation entitled 'From grassroots to platform: The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in the online world'
2023-05-171h 04
SwimmingpodPoop Pollution Politics by Stanley UlijaszekThe gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both real and that spoken by the
politicians currently in charge of this usually green and pleasant land. A land also full of streams and rivers, veins and arteries of blue space, often blue
but also often coloured by raw sewage. The personal is political, and that goes for swimming waters every bit as much as human rights. This podcast is in response to a front page headline in the Guardian newspaper - ‘Tories turning ri...
2023-04-2312 min
SwimmingpodThe Serpentine Swimming Club, London, and the International Marathon Swimming Hall of FameIn May 2022, the Serpentine Swimming Club was inducted into the International Marathon Swimmers Hall of Fame (IMSHOF), in Naples, Italy. One Saturday morning following this proud moment, many of the club’s marathon swimmers came together to be photographed by Anthony Wood, a fellow Serpentine Club Swimmer who’s been photographing life at the club for the past few years, as documented in his Instagram feed @coldwatermornings. This podcast catches the exuberance of the morning’s celebration with many of the clubs’ marathon swimmers as they assembled by the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, London, with interviews with some of the ma...
2023-03-1016 min
SwimmingpodGrace Wright-Arora, and Cold Water Swimming as an Act of ResistanceSo many cold water swimmers are non-conformists, but who would have thought of it as a political act? Grace Wright-Arora carried out social research on cold water swimming for her undergraduate dissertation at the University of Bristol. She interviewed outdoor swimmers in London and near Bristol, and found that for many, swimming was a way of resisting norms and structures that confine them in everyday life. Like size-ism, that people have to fit bodily norms dictated to them by health authorities or the fashion industry (strange bedfellows, it seems to me). And linked to that, pool-ism - that you...
2023-01-1324 min
SwimmingpodA Winter Swimming Briefing given by Stanley Ulijaszek, prepared by Jeremy WellinghamIt is winter, and there are many winter swimming briefings out there – this is a good thing, people are aware of winter swimming safety. This podcast is a raw recording of the briefing given and embellished by Stanley Ulijaszek and prepared by Jeremy Wellingham, at the annual winter swimming event at Oxford's Port Meadow, the Dodo Swim. It takes the swimmer or dipper through a chronological sequence, from preparation on the day, to immersion and swimming, to ending and getting changed.
2022-12-2107 min
SwimmingpodMoon Swimming, Swimming in the Moonlight, with Stanley UlijaszekSwimming in moonlight is one of life’s un-buyable treasures. There are twelve full moon opportunities a year, and although the clouds or the rain can sometime put a spoiler on things, you can come away having experienced at the very least a change in routine, and more often than not, a sense of wonder of the world. All it takes is a full moon and some open water to swim in, and of course some friends to share it with. In this podcast, Stanley Ulijaszek describes three very memorable moon-swims: his first ever, in the Thames at Dorchester, Ox...
2022-10-3019 min
SwimmingpodJuliet Turnbull and ‘Open Water – Share the Knowledge'Juliet Turnbull has set up a group called ‘Open Water – Share the Knowledge’, which is about sharing the open water experience that she and others have, with people newly entering open water swimming. As she puts it, promoting positive use of open water. This is needed, after a hot summer of rising water-based fatalities in the UK. Juliet is otherwise known as the Thames Mermaid, and she swims in the River Thames at Molesey and Thames Ditton almost every day. She has swum the length of the non-tidal Thames across two years, and has many swimming achievements under her belt...
2022-09-0910 min
SwimmingpodWild Open Swim, with Kath Fotheringham, Fiona Undrill and Darrin RolesThe Wild Open Swim Blog is the brain child of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford banner, the organisation run by Darrin, who created the Wild Swim series, known for being set in locations of natural beauty in West Oxfordshire. The blog is a celebration of open water swimming all year and the photographs, words and artwork that it has inspired. Kath lives and works and swims in and around Oxford. Originally from South Africa, she has embraced swimming in the UK. She is a designer by profession. Fiona Undrill is...
2022-08-1819 min
SwimmingpodTess and Judy Bird, Daughter and Mother Swimming in Connecticut, New EnglandConversations that flow through the water, from mother to daughter and back again, almost dream-like. In this podcast I am in conversation with Tess and Judy Bird, both in New England, daughter and mother, both swimmers, sometimes together, most often not. Judy is a life-long swimmer, former life-guard, with an early excitement about open water that has stayed with her since forever. Tess too is a life-long swimmer.
They share swimming stories with me. Judy – of being in the ocean beyond the breakers, floating, between air and water, where there is a lot of peace. Of swimming in...
2022-07-1314 min
SwimmingpodSophie Etheridge, adaptive athlete, and swimming the 21 miles of the Two-Way WindermereI am truly humbled by Sophie Etheridge, and will never ever complain again about the aches and pains in my joints. Sophie is an adaptive athlete, who developed complex regional pain syndrome after a car knocked her off her bike as she was travelling to triathlon training. Now a wheelchair user, Sophie is tough, determined, an achiever, who won back her swimming identity stroke by stroke, swimming through the pain.
In 2021 she swam the Two-Way Windermere, all 21 miles of it. She set up the Adaptive/Disabled Open Water Swimmers (ADOWS) group on Facebook and was astonished by...
2022-06-0228 min
SwimmingpodTom Elliott and Richard Flint Talk About Swimming and the Making of Swim-Film ‘As You Lake It’Tom Elliott and Danny Longman swam all the lakes of the Lake District in four days, and Richard Flint filmed them. In this podcast, Richard, maker of the film ‘As You Lake It’, talks about the process of filming them do it, and Tom talks doing it - swimming the lakes of the Lake District.
2022-03-1124 min
SwimmingpodDylan Friedmann - A Year (and counting) of Swimming and Dipping Daily in Lake Ontario, CanadaToronto-based Dylan Friedmann is an inspiration. She undertook, January 1st, 2021, to swim (or dip) in Lake Ontario every single day of the year to raise money for the charity Kids Help Phone, helping with adolescent mental health in Canada right now when help is needed. Air temperature on some of her dips dips to minus thirty Celsius, the water close on zero. She completed her daily swims in 2020, all 365 of them, and she continues on, swimming and dipping, even when in February she has to dig through the ice for water.
2022-02-1418 min
SwimmingpodSwimming, Leptospirosis and Me – a 'Night at the Opera' with Stanley UlijaszekI was hospitalized with leptospirosis, Weil’s Disease, in August 2021. The risk of this disease sits at the back of the mind of many river and lake swimmers, but it very rarely materialises. It did so in my mind too, until. Until the intense burning and body chills, head and body aches, falling and falling blood pressure took me to hospital and intensive care. The clinical descriptions of the disease do not do justice to the metabolic and physiological roller-coaster I went on. This took me to some strange places in my head, and subsequently made me revisit the ri...
2022-01-2736 min
SwimmingpodJuliet Turnbull - Swimming the Thames Her WayJuliet Turnbull is a very accomplished swimmer, and an artist who turns ideas that churn in her mind as she swims, into art-textiles and embroider-work, works that evoke the sensorial nature of being in the water. She lives on the Thames and swims in it. She is swimming the length of it in sections with her friend Fiona Irwin; she also sings under bridges. This podcast was recorded in January, when we were both in dry robes, recovering after swimming in a snow flurry, she near Hampton Court, London, me at Eynsham Lock, Oxfordshire.
2022-01-2714 min
SwimmingpodThe Second Great Stink? UK Swimming Rivers in a Mess, by Stanley UlijaszekThe Thames, right now is not the universally clean and sparkling river of my dreams. This podcast is about trying to understand, as a swimmer, the problems surrounding rivers in the UK right now – the dumping of raw sewage, of pollution. How did we get into this watery mess? If it were simple, it would have been solved - so what is going on?
2022-01-2219 min
SwimmingpodCharles Sprawson's 'Haunts of the Black Masseur' at 30 years - A Discussion with John Von Düffel and James NortonThis podcast, with German nationally-acclaimed playwright, essayist, dramaturge and prize-winning novelist John von Düffel and acclaimed film-maker James Norton, considers Charles Sprawson’s classic book about the history and cultures of swimming, some thirty years after it was first published. Both John and James are passionate about this book, John having adapted it for a German-speaking audience in 2002. The discussion ranges from swimming heroes, to romanticism, and to environmental degradation, as well as James' and John's own swimming passions. The book remains as current as ever, but is about so much more than the issues we discuss. Had we r...
2022-01-0433 min
SwimmingpodDuncan Goodhew, Olympic Gold Medalist, and the State of Swimming in the United KingdomDuncan Goodhew is a life-long swimmer and champion of swimming in more ways than one. He won Olympic Gold and Bronze in the 100 meters breaststroke and 100 meter medley relay respectively, in the Moscow 1980 Olympics. He has promoted swimming at all levels ever since.
He is President of Swimathon, the swimming charity that brings together swimmers of all ages and abilities with two simple aims: to spread the joys and benefits of swimming whilst raising money for some of the UK’s most needful charity work. He was awarded the Humane Award for administering life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to...
2021-11-1925 min
SwimmingpodAnette Frisch and Mindful SwimmingAnette Frisch lives in Dusseldorf, Germany. She swims in pools and the ocean, but mostly she is a pool swimmer, one that swims crawl because breaststroke is too slow for her. Which is not to say she is in a hurry. She is not; she is one of the most mindful swimmers I know, and this podcast very much became about exactly that – mindful swimming. It wasn’t planned that way, it just happened. Which is part of the magic of mindful swimming – it just happens.
She is passionate about swimming, and her website blog ‘bahnenziehen.de’ captures t...
2021-09-2720 min
SwimmingpodPauline Barker, and the Polar Bear (and Penguin) ChallengePauline Barker talks about the origins of the Polar Bear Challenge, and how it has expanded. She describes how many people got through the UK COVID-19 winter through swimming, dipping or equivalent challenges. Most importantly, she talks about what’s in store for the coming winter of 2021-22. Winter swimming has probably never been so popular in the UK as it is now, and Pauline Barker, one of the most experienced people in this field anywhere.
2021-08-2812 min
SwimmingpodBen Cousins and Free-diving in the South African Kelp ForestBen Cousins is 72 years old and is passionate about the ocean – he has surfed it, swum in it, and now free dives in and around the ocean kelp forest south of Simonstown, south of Capetown, South Africa. At the start of our conversation in this podcast. Ben quotes poet Emily Dickenson - ‘That it will never come again - Is what makes life so sweet’. Ben lives life to the full, and strives to understand this mysterious world by keeping a diary for every swim - shark, octopus, sting ray, and all the creatures big and small that make up thi...
2021-07-1931 min
SwimmingpodGrumpy Old Swimming, with Judith HolderJudith Holder is a bestselling comedy writer, TV producer and speaker, who originated the BBC series and stage shows 'Grumpy Old Women' which have sold worldwide. She is passionate about outdoor swimming. In this podcast she talks about her love for swimming, comedy, and her podcast series with friend and comedian Jenny Eclair.
2021-06-2811 min
SwimmingpodBerlin Swimming Spree - Caitlin Kraemer and Swimming in the CityCaitlin Kraemer is a graduate student in Berlin and has written an article 'Swimming in the City'. In this podcast we talk about Berlin as an outdoor swimming city, and city swimming in general. A citizen-swimmer, she knows a lot about the Flussbad Berlin, which will open up the Spree Canal to open water swimming right in the heart of the city.
Music is 'Noe Noe' by Castro and 'Vienna Beat' by RadioPink, both on Blue Dot Sessions.
2021-06-0417 min
SwimmingpodAnna Deacon and 'Taking the Plunge'Anna Deacon is co-author, with Vicky Allen, of the book 'Taking the Plunge', She is a photographer of considerable repute, and has a number of swimming-oriented projects on the go. She talks about these, and more.
2021-05-1722 min
SwimmingpodDarrin Roles and the Lock to Lock Swim EventsDarrin Roles started and runs, with acknowledged support from many friends and family, the Lock-to-Lock events in the River Thames upstream of Oxford. These swims are variously from Eynsham to King’s Lock (4 kilometers), from Farmoor to King’s Lock (6 kilometers) and from Farmoor to Godstow Lock (10 kilometers). In the course of setting up these swims, he revived the Oxford Mile (renamed the Oxford Classic Mile) and set up two swim-runs, along the same stretch of the River Thames as the Lock-to-Lock swims.
The Lock-to-Lock events are now regular features in the swim calendar, and they show-case the...
2021-04-3039 min
SwimmingpodSian Richardson, Founder of The Bluetits Chill SwimmersSian Richardson, Founder of The Bluetits Chill Swimmers, talks about how this social enterprise, with now more than 6,000 members across three continents, started and grew. From Wales, at the beach near the farm where Sian has lived all her life. Sian has style, panache and a passion for winter swimming which she is taking to the world.
2021-03-3021 min
SwimmingpodAlex Foster's Anthropology of the Serpentine Swimming Club, LondonAlex Foster spent the winter months of 2019-2020 learning about winter swimming and cold water immersion at the Serpentine Swimming Club, in Hyde Park, London. This is podcast is about his immersion in the club and its waters, and his MPhil thesis in Medical Anthropology on this topic. The thesis is available at www.lxvswim.org.
2021-02-2619 min
St Cross College ShortsDan Hicks discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums with Stanley UlijaszekDan Hicks, British archaeologist and anthropologist discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums with Stanley Ulijaszek Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford University.
2021-02-1921 min
SwimmingpodNostalgia for Lake Bled Winter Swimming Championships with Jeremy Wellingham and Stanley UlijaszekA nostalgia conversation between Jeremy Wellingham and Stanley Ulijaszek about the Lake Bled Winter Swimming World Championships which took place a year ago, February 2020. We could not have anticipated how the year would unfold, so full of optimism was this event. Helped by the full-to-the-brim enthusiasm of the thousand-plus participants and their friends and family, there was seriousness, friendliness and fun in equal measure. ‘It’s wonderful to be here, it’s certainly a thrill…’
2021-02-1616 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeFood Politics Expert Marion Nestle on Industry Influence on Food ResearchIn this episode, Stanley interviews Professor Marion Nestle about her two latest books, Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat (2018) and Let’s Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health (with Kerry Trueman) (2020). Prof. Nestle describes the various ways that food industries influence research, pay for their own experts, and influence regulation, often following the infamous tobacco industry playbook. As she notes, "quote about healthy diet." If you want to learn more, check out Prof. Nestle's regular blog (which we love) at https://www.foodpolitics.com/ an...
2021-01-2927 min
SwimmingpodSandy Burnett, Musician and Broadcaster, on Water, Music, Music and WaterSandy Burnett is a Man of Music, especially amphibious in classical waters and jazz streams of consciousness. He is one of the most authoritative classical music broadcasters in the UK, with a huge and impressive CV, which he wears lightly. He is also an outdoor swimmer, Summer and Winter. In this conversation we discuss great rivers like the Thames and the Rhine, the ocean at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and music that has been inspired by the flow of water. The music in this podcast is Sandy himself, improvising, opening of Sea Interlude III, 'Sunday Morning by the Beach' from Benjamin B...
2021-01-2225 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeSociologist Anthony Ryan Hatch on Sugar's Legacy of RacismIn this interview with Tess, sociologist Prof. Tony Hatch explains why the problem of sugar is much greater than just being bad for our bodies. As a colonial commodity, sugar carries a legacy of slavery and racism that is still with us today. He describes sugar's relationship to black bodies, metabolic syndrome, and global trade, calling for political action: a boycott of sugar. This podcast is an eye-opening take on sugar from an environmental, ecological, and social perspective. (Listeners take note: we had some sound tech issues with this one, so we hope you can forgive the clicking...
2021-01-1825 min
SwimmingpodFrost Swimmers of Gothenberg, Sweden – 100 Dagarkallabad - Anna Carin Olsen, Lina Tengblad and Marielle SjorenBada bada bada, Varje dag
Bada bada bada, Varje dag
Bada Ja, Bada Ja
Bada bada bada, Varje dag!
Less of poetry than trance chant –
Swimming, swimming, swimming, every day
Swimming, swimming, swimming, every day
Swimming Yes, Swimming Yes
Swimming, swimming, swimming, every day!
Three women in Gothenberg, Sweden who swim every day, and bring joy, candles, bubbles and yoga on a surf-board, as well as their friends, to their project of a hundred swims into winter.
2020-12-2219 minSt Cross College ShortsAn van Camp in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek at the Young Rembrandt exhibitionAs part of the St Cross College Shorts podcast series, Fellow and Ashmolean Museum Curator An van Camp discusses the Young Rembrandt exhibition with Stanley Ulijaszek, in October 2020.
2020-12-1619 minSt Cross College ShortsAn van Camp in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek at the Young Rembrandt exhibition (Transcript)As part of the St Cross College Shorts podcast series, Fellow and Ashmolean Museum Curator An van Camp discusses the Young Rembrandt exhibition with Stanley Ulijaszek, in October 2020.
2020-12-1600 min
SwimmingpodSwimming Copenhagen-StyleAnne Katrine Kleberg Hansen is an all-seasons swimmer in Copenhagen, a city of the future where outdoor swimming is not just allowed but encouraged
2020-12-0818 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeHealth Scientist Dr. Madeleine Power discusses Food Insecurity and Food Justice in the UKDr. Madeleine Power is an expert in UK food aid and food insecurity, in particular its relationship with wider economic and ethnic inequalities. In this interview with Stanley, she discusses her research into food insecurity amongst Pakistani and Muslim groups and among white British groups in Bradford, UK, to get a sense of variations of food insecurity amongst these groups (it's more complicated than you might think, and different than in the US!) Dr. Power also talks about the York Food Justice Alliance, which was started as a network to ally local organizations concerned about hunger in York and...
2020-12-0300 min
SwimmingpodWomen Who Swim - Kristie Waller and Judy PearsallJudy Pearsall and Kristie Waller are two women who swim together regularly in Oxford and Oxfordshire. They both have a passion for swimming and they share some of their swimming thoughts, memories and plans.
2020-11-2211 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeSociologist Lotte Holm on Food, Body-weight, and Income DisparityIn this interview with Stanley, Professor Lotte Holm explains why a sociological understanding of different people’s experiences around food, body-weight, and income is vital for implementing better policies around food. Much of her research focuses on populations in Denmark and the European Union, but understanding everyday struggles around food is a huge component of our global food and healthcare system.
Prof. Holm is a sociologist at the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) at the University of Copenhagen. Two of her recent publications include:
Gronow, J. & Holm, L. (Eds.), Everyday eating in De...
2020-11-2000 min
SwimmingpodSwim the Thames - a conversation with Sefryn Penrose, Chris Dalton, Jeremy Wellingham and Sharon Curtis, who started out, with many others, to swim the length of this great riverBetween 2011 and 2013 a group of outdoor swimmers swam the 250 kilometer length of the non-tidal River Thames in stretches, starting at the source and ending in Teddington on the outskirts of London. The numbers varied from stretch to stretch, and the project took on a life of its own. Stanley Ulijaszek discusses this art-work-like swimming project with four of the founders of Swim the Thames.
2020-11-1226 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeNutrition and Exercise Physiologist Lars Holm on Diet in Later LifeIn this interview with Stanley, Prof. Lars Holm discusses the importance of protein in our diet as we age. As we get older, our sensitivity to amino acids begins to deteriorate, which prevents us from absorbing as much protein as we could earlier in life. He also explains why the uptake of amino acids is better when the protein is eaten with meals and how protein relates to exercise.
Lars Holm is Professor at the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.
2020-11-0500 min
SwimmingpodDip-a-Day - Helen Edwards Swimming Every Day of the YearHelen Edwards started swimming outdoors every day - Dip-a-Day - with no intention of taking it this far. She is now into her fourth year of this personal project, and she talks about her motivation for it, what it brings to her life, and how it has just kept going. She lives in Oxford, and most of her swims are in and around this beautiful city. The music is Noe Noe by Castro, and Vienna Beat by Radio Pink, both on Blue Dot Sessions.
2020-11-0215 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeAt Home with Tess: Ashley Chard Dinella, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, talks about intuitive, healthy eatingIn this episode, Tess interviews Ashley Chard Dinella, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and food marketing specialist. Ashley tells a story about not being able to diagnosis an illness as a child and finally turning to a nutrition expert who located the culprits. The subsequent twenty years of knowledge acquisition and experimentation eventually led her to intuitive, healthy eating as an overarching principle of her lifestyle. She also has a few tidbits of real-world advice for our listeners.
Ashley runs Zoetic Wellness Consulting, which designs corporate and personal wellness solutions.
2020-10-3000 min
SwimmingpodCraig Holmes and Jo Jones, British Ice Swimming 500 meter champions, in conversation with Stanley UlijaszekCraig Holmes and Jo Jones are the defending British Ice Swimming 500 meter champions, and are very nice people. They talk with Stanley Ulijaszek about their swimming achievements, their aspirations, and how they got into cold water swimming. They have lots of excellent advice, all learned on their own bodies, on how to break the ice, so to speak, if you haven't done it before and want to.
2020-10-2637 min
SwimmingpodPauline Barker - Founder and Organizer of the Polar Bear ChallengePauline Barker, founder and organizer of the Polar Bear Challenge, in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek, talking about her winter swimming achievements, what it takes to make a Polar Bear swimmer, and her swimming mission to make winter swimming open to everyone that wants it.
2020-10-1912 min
SwimmingpodWelcome to SwimmingpodWelcome to Swimmingpod, a podcast series about outdoor swimming across the seasons, for people who love swimming. An lxvswim production - www.lxvswim.org #lxvswim
2020-10-1803 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeHealth Scientist Anna Bach-Faig and Everything You Need To Know About the Mediterranean DietThe Mediterranean diet has risen in popularity around the world. In this informative and inspiring episode, Stanley talks to Dr. Anna Bach-Faig, a leading scholar on the Mediterranean diet in Spain. As Prof. Bach-Faig explains, this diet is considered one of the healthiest diets out there, with strong evidence showing its role in preventing “cardiodiabesity,” or cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and type II diabetes. It’s also a unique diet because it tackles two key aspects of food: what-we-eat as well as the how-we-eat. She explains how the pleasure of preparing and sharing meals with significant people is associated with health...
2020-10-1500 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeBiological Anthropologist Cristina Giuliani on Taste Receptors (which are located all over the body!)Dr. Cristina Giuliani discusses the physiology of taste in this episode with Stanley. As Dr. Guiliana explains, taste is way more complicated than you think: "it's a sort of sensory modality to evaluate food toxicity, to select high energy foods, and to prepare the body to extract energy from foods." Taste receptors are actually located in many different areas of our body, far beyond the tongue. For instance, one bitter receptor (TAS2R38) is not only located in the oral cavity but in the upper respiratory airways. These receptors play a far greater role in sensing our environments than...
2020-10-0200 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeAnthropologist Amy McLennan on Redefining Lifestyle Diseases on the Pacific Island of NauruIn this fascinating episode about Nauru, an island country in the central Pacific, anthropologist Dr. Amy McLennan discusses what it means to redefine the medical notion of "lifestyle" in a locally-contextualized way. In her own words: “In the world of medicine, lifestyle is often distilled into what you eat, what exercise you do, whether you sleep or not, if you smoke, and if you drink alcohol. [But] when you work with people on the ground in communities, “lifestyle” means something very different. It means who you’re related to and who you spend time with, what you like to do, wher...
2020-09-2218 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeAnthropologist Sabine Parrish talks CoffeeSabine Parrish (www.sabine.coffee), a doctoral candidate and anthropologist at the University of Oxford, describes how an unsavory gendered comment while working as a barista triggered her research into coffee and coffee shops. She discusses coffee in relation to sociality and gender, nutrition, and coffee competitions in the US and Brazil. She also co-owns a coffee shop in Cardiff, Wales. Check it out at www.mec.coffee and follow @sabine.coffee and @mec.coffee on Instagram and @sabinebeans and @meccoffeeltd on Twitter!
2020-09-1522 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeAt Home with Tess: Can you really reduce your family's sugar consumption?In this episode, Tess talks with Dr. Emily Ventura, co-author of the new book Sugarproof: The Hidden Dangers of Sugar That Are Putting Your Child’s Health at Risk and What You Can Do, and a mother and daughter in Washington state who have tested out some of the Sugarproof techniques and recipes.
This episode follows Thursday's, where Stanley interviews Prof. Michael Goran and Dr. Emily Ventura about Sugarproof. If you haven't listened in, start there!
For more info, visit: www.sugarproofkids.com and www.goranlab.com. You can also follow them on Instagram&nb...
2020-09-0523 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeProf. Michael Goran and Dr. Emily Ventura on "Sugarproofing" the FamilyIn this episode, Stanley talks with Prof. Michael Goran and Dr. Emily Ventura, PhD, MPH, about their new book Sugarproof: The Hidden Dangers of Sugar That Are Putting Your Child’s Health at Risk and What You Can Do. They give a comprehensive overview of some of the risks of sugar consumption in childhood as well as practical tips and techniques for reducing sugar consumption in the family. Stay tuned for a follow-up episode, released over the weekend, where Tess and Dr. Emily Ventura interview a mother and daughter in Washington state who tried some of the Sugarproof techniques an...
2020-09-0339 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeNutritional Epidemiologist Esther González-PadillaDr. Esther González-Padilla is a nutritional epidemiologist at Lund University in Sweden. In this interview with Stanley, she talks about sugar and micronutrient dilution, i.e. "the displacement of the intake of nutrient-dense foods by the overconsumption of energy-dense foods (rich in fat and sugar and poor in nutrients)" (learn more). She also explains why nutrition research can be so complex, especially when studies rely on participants self-reporting their diets. This is Dr. González-Padilla's second podcast with us. You can listen to the first one here.
2020-08-3122 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeAt Home with Tess: New Nordic Cuisine in Everyday LifeAnne Katrine Kleberg Hansen, a medical historian and food-lover in Copenhagen, Denmark, talks to Tess about how the New Nordic food movement has changed how she eats in her everyday life, how those around her eat, and how it has impacted her neighborhood. This episode is paired with one from Anders Kristian Munk, another Dane who has written about the New Nordic movement.
2020-08-2521 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeAnders Kristian Munk on New Nordic CuisineAnders Kristian Munk is an ethnologist and computational social scientist interested in cultural phenomena in Europe. He uses computational methods to study patterns in large amounts of data. In this interview with Stanley, Munk discusses one cultural phenomenon that he has been following for over 15 years: the New Nordic food movement. The New Nordic food movement was made famous by the restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, which focuses on fresh, local, seasonal foods and traditional cuisine re-made in new ways. The movement has since spread around the world. Munk talks about how New Nordic food compares to other local...
2020-08-2013 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeNeuroendocrinologist Giles Yeo on Covid-19 and ObesityGiles Yeo is a neuroendocrinologist at the University of Cambridge with over 20 years experience researching brain control and body-weight (learn more). He speaks in this episode about the relationship between Covid-19 and obesity. As this research is unfolding, Yeo gives us some potential hypotheses and explains what data is still needed. He also points to the socioeconomic inequalities evident in the pandemic. [Note that this episode was recorded on May 29, 2020]
2020-08-1413 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeSociologist Claude Fischler on Food Studies and CommensalityStanley interviews Claude Fischler, a French social scientist, Senior Investigator Emeritus with CNRS, the French National Science Center, and a former director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Contemporary Anthropology in Paris. In this episode, he talks about the importance of food to humans, beginning with why he decided to pursue the study of food. He defines commensality, explaining where this word comes from and how it manifests today. He also discusses the contemporary eating habits of the French and how they compare to other countries.
2020-08-0527 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeSeason Two IntroductionSeason 2 is here! In this season, we have bite-sized interviews with experts in food and nutrition, and other issues that impact the biological body. We will pepper these with interviews with households on the topics discussed. Write to us! DM us on Instagram @aroundthetablepod or send us a message at anchor.fm/aroundthetablepod
2020-08-0504 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeStanley and Tess in Conversation: Themes and Thoughts on Season 1: Lock Down FoodWe cover some of the themes that came out through our interviews, from creativity in the kitchen to inequality, obesity, and Covid-19. For those of you that don't know, Stanley is a nutritional anthropologist whose work centers on the evolutionary basis for, and cultural diversity in, nutritional health. This includes both undernutrition and obesity, and the diseases associated with them. Tess asks him a few questions about the future of food and science when it comes to obesity and Covid-19. Just a reminder that all thoughts are preliminary: we put this podcast out to think and muse as...
2020-06-1626 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Dr. Amy McLennan, a human scientist and social researcher in AustraliaStanley interviews Dr. Amy McLennan, a human scientist and social researcher in Australia, who discusses how Covid-19 has impacted the meat industry, exposing issues of structural violence and inequality. She also discusses the implications for the global meat supply chain, including what it means to live in a society that has aimed to eliminate food storage. Once you give it a listen, here are some additional articles about some of the topics covered, including the US vs. Australian meat industry, a mobile butcher in Germany, how the pandemic is messing with AI models, and the plant-based boom.
2020-06-0918 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Stephanie Morphew, Researcher and WriterStanley talks to Steph Morphew, a food writer and service industry worker who discusses direct to consumer selling from the restaurant industry during lock down and what our future access to good food might look like.
2020-06-0514 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Lou Chatey, co-owner of Westford Hill DistillersTess interviews Lou Chatey, the co-owner of Westford Hill Distillers in Ashford, CT. He talks about how the pandemic has impacted business, including answering the demand for hand sanitizer, as well as his spring forages and cocktail creations.
2020-06-0513 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Dr. Heather Hamill, Sociologist at the University of OxfordStanley interviews with Dr. Heather Hamill, a Sociologist at the University of Oxford and mother of three, who discusses having covid-19 symptoms and a loss of appetite, using up the over-supply of chickpeas at the bottom of the cupboard, and her children's growing confidence in cooking. She ends with an appreciation for neighborly kindness, recalling the reassurance that a loaf of bread left on the doorstep gave her in the early weeks of lock down.
2020-06-0217 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Dr. Giles Yeo, Geneticist at the University of CambridgeStanley interviews Dr. Giles Yeo, a Geneticist at the University of Cambridge and author of "Gene Eating: The Story of Human Appetite." He talks about food insecurity during Covid19, concerns for Brexit, and posting his cooking under #bringingchinatownhome, a London campaign to draw positive attention to Chinatown, which was one of the areas most devastated by the lock down. Check out his recipe for crispy aromatic duck, a "high impact, low effort" dish!
2020-06-0215 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with a couple in Beirut, LebanonTess interviews a couple in Beirut, Lebanon, who discuss having a baby during the pandemic, how the pandemic came during ongoing political and economic crisis in Lebanon, and the "micro-market of sweets" that's emerged during lockdown.
2020-05-2819 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Tim Herdon in Oxford, UKStanley speaks with Tim Herdon, an editor at Oxford University Press, who says he's eating healthier in lockdown, and making his kids chicken nuggets from scratch (we're impressed!). This episode makes us wonder, are many of us eating healthier in lockdown?
2020-05-2811 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Jon Bone, co-owner of Life Bowls in Connecticut, USATess interviews Jon Bone, the co-owner of Life Bowls in Connecticut, known for its delicious and healthy açaí bowls. He talks about what it's like to run a food business during lockdown, the demand for healthy takeout, plant-based eating, and what the future of the restaurant industry might look like.
2020-05-2617 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Eden Henderson, a London ChefStanley interviews Eden Henderson, a chef at The River Cafe in London. He’s learning to appreciate the simple things about food during lockdown, like "cheese on toast with some obscene topping” (me too, Eden, 100% all about the cheese on sourdough).
2020-05-2614 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Pallavi Laxmikanth, a medical anthropologist, in lockdown in Hyderabad, IndiaTess interviews Pallavi Laxmikanth, a doctoral candidate at the University of Adelaide who discusses lockdown in Hyderabad, India, and how it has changed her life and the lives of her research participants. She researches metabolic health and food practices, particularly around new food apps, in households in India. "I've been thinking about the difference between restriction and refusal," she tells us, explaining the different ways people relate to both diabetes restrictions and government restrictions during covid-19.
2020-05-2126 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Esther González-Padilla, a nutritional epidemiologist in the Canary Islands, SpainEsther González-Padilla discusses mediterranean eating, "sobremesa," sugar and micronutrient dilution, and why over-snacking is a problem during COVID-19. González-Padilla is a PhD student at the Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. You can read her recent paper on micronutrient dilution on BioMedCentral. She also recommends these food and nutrition tips during self-quarantine (WHO Europe) and "Food for thought: 7 tips on keeping a healthy diet in the face of coronavirus."
2020-05-1813 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Maddalena Borsato, a "messy pastry practitioner with a philosophical vein," in lockdown in ItalyMaddalena Borsato, a messy pastry chef and researcher in aesthetics, studies sweetness and taste from a philosophical point of view. She co-created a website, aristortele.it, with where she and Jacopo Giacomoni "philosophize with a spoon" and create thoughtful pastry recipes. She discusses lockdown in Italy, sourdough, and philosophy.
2020-05-1419 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeInterview with Alexandra Ulijaszek Scott, on creativity, food, and cocktails in London during lockdownStanley interviews Alexandra Ulijaszek Scott, a cocktail bartender in London who talks about the creativity coming from the food and beverage industry during lockdown.
2020-05-1418 min
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeAround the Virtual Table During COVID-19: Everyday Tales from Denmark, Switzerland, and the UKTess interviews Tanja Schneider (Switzerland), Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen (Denmark), and Stanley Ulijaszek (UK) about how their everyday food lives have changed since the COVID-19 lock down.
2020-05-1425 minAround the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday LifeOur Vision: Tess and Stanley in ConversationIn our first episode, we have a conversation about our vision for this podcast and for our first season called Lockdown Food.
2020-05-1313 min