What it Takes to be a Wild Swimmer - Rob Fryer, 3pm Saturday 20th October


Talk	Rob Fryer

Buy Rob's Guide (�14.95)	Kate Rew's sadly had to withdraw for personal reasons but we're delighted Rob Fryer has been able to step into her swimming cossie. Rob is chair of the world's only river swimming club (Farleigh) and of the River & Lake Swimming Association. He's also the author of The Wild Swimming Guide.� Call it wild, open water, or outdoor swimming, his massive book is the culmination of 13 years' research and contains more information on river and lake swimming sites than any other known publication with ratings and anecdotes about 650 sites in the UK and 250 more worldwide. Rob's appeared frequently on radio and TV including BBC Radio 4 and Countryfile.� He's been wild swimming since he was at school.� Inspired and encouraged by the late Roger Deakin (author of the classic 'Waterlog') he began work on his guide. He assiduously seeks out traditional wild swimming sites, believing that, like a treasured heirloom, knowing the "provenance" of a site adds to the enjoyment of swimming there. As a local councillor and Mayor of Warminster Rob is a tireless campaigner for the rights of wild swimmers. Rob confesses to being a a summer swimmer, so you will not see him breaking the the ice - that is unless he's indulging in his other passion of 'wild skating'. Read more about Rob's campaign for river access featured on BBC Inside Out and listen to his swim in the River Frome with BBC Wiltshire. listen to ?Rob Fryer, Wild Swimming with BBC Wiltshire? on Audioboo PS Kate says the Outdoors Swimming Society are keen to know if you have any favourite wild swimming spots in the Peak District that they don't know about already.� Do please drop a pin on their Wild Swim website and share.

Film	Following Rob's talk and Q&A we'll show a series of films including Kate Rew's Wild Swim.

	Shot during one of the coldest winters for years, the�WINTER SWIMMING features a swimming club based on the banks of the Vltava river in Prague whose members specialise in swimming outside through the winter - one couple even get married in 1.5C water. Quite literally breath-taking.

�	From Kate's series highlighting Britain's best wild-swimming spots.� In WILD SWIM: WORDSWORTH COUNTRY Kate swims Rydal Water in the Lake District. His home for 37 years, Wordsworth described the lake as "The most loveliest spot that man hath found". Immersing herself, Kate discovers a different perspective on a landscape often taken for granted from the shore.

	In FREE FALL world champion freediver Guillaume Nery "BASE jumps" head first into Dean's Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world.� This surreal short was filmed entirely on breath hold by fellow French freediver Julie Gautier.� The sensational viral hit caused controversy, though Nery insists it's an artistic project. Simply bewitching.� A rare treat to be able to view in its full glory on the big screen. �

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