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Christopher Hope

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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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Mon 22 Aug 2016 22:45

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