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Wild Swimming: writer Sarah Cuddon regularly finds herself turning country walks into hunts for secluded swimming spots. Like Huckleberry Finn and countless other literary figures – both real and imagined – she is drawn to open water. With reference to Lord Byron, Irish Murdoch, and other writers "hungry for water," she considers the physical and spiritual aspects of "wild swimming" and she talks to Kate Rew, founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society, about her experiences in English lakes, foreign rivers and the open sea.