Sinéad Kehoe is the founder of Wāhine Wai, a dippers' group in Wellington. In this episode we discuss eight swim books we've enjoyed, two swim songs, and two swim films:

• Lonely Planet's 'The Joy of Wild Swimming', 2023.
• Anna Deacon and Vicky Allan, 'Taking the Plunge: The Healing Power of Wild Swimming for Mind, Body and Soul', 2019, Black & White Publishing.
• Nina Mingya Powles. 'Small Bodies of Water.' 2021, Canongate Books.
• Ingrid Horrocks. 'Where We Swim.' 2021, Te Herenga Waka University Press.
• Annette Lees. 'Swim: a Year of Swimming Outdoors in New Zealand.' 2018, Potton & Burton.
• Julie Otsuka. 'The Swimmers'. 2022, Penguin.
• Tracey Baumann and Emma Levy. 'The Swim Mastery Way.' 2024, InHouse Publishing.
• Lynne Cox. 'Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer.' 2004, Harcourt.
• Louden Wainwright III, 'The Swimming Song'. 1973.
• R.E.M. 'Nightswimming.' 1992.
• 'The Swimmer' (film), 1968.
• 'Kim Swims' (documentary), 2017.

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