Latest Sea swimming Podcast Episodes
Gemma Cairney - Making a Splash
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - September 23, 2021 15:26 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWelcome to the last in the current series of Making a Splash. My guest this week is Gemma Cairney: a broadcaster and author who you may know from her shows on Radio 1 and 6Music, as well as her current TV show Landmark on Sky Arts. Gemma is a devoted sea swimmer who’s currently turning her hand ...
Sacha Coward - Making a Splash
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - September 16, 2021 16:32 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week I’m diving into the super interesting history of queer mermaid mythology with Sacha Coward. Sacha is a queer historian, tour guide and escape room designer who has been working at museums and heritage sites across the UK for over a decade. He is also a folklorist with a passion for the...
Ferren Gipson - Making a Splash
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - September 09, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week I’m exploring the cult of swimming in revolutionary China, with Ferren Gipson: art historian, writer, presenter, and a doctoral researcher in Chinese art at SOAS, University of London. Ferren is the host of the Art Matters podcast, and the author of The Ultimate Art Museum, with a fort...
Dr Heather Massey - Making a Splash
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - September 02, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week I’m diving into the science of cold water swimming with Dr Heather Massey, a Senior Lecturer in the Extreme Environments Laboratory at the University of Portsmouth, where she spends a lot of her time researching the science of cold water immersion. She’s published a number of studies t...
Matt Lodder - Making a Splash
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - August 26, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week I am exploring maritime tattoos as art history. My guest is Dr Matt Lodder, an art historian and curator who specialises in the history of western tattooing from the 17th century to the present day. He is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, and Director of American Studies at th...
FIDM Museum Sporting Fashion - Making a Splash
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - August 19, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week, one of my favourite topics: the history of swimwear! My guest is Christina Johnson, Associate Curator at the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in California. Christina is co-curator of the excellent exhibition, ‘Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960...
Marawa - Making a Splash
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - August 12, 2021 09:14 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week, swimming and the showgirl! My guest is the exceptional Marawa: an international showgirl, hoola hooper extraordinaire, circus star, roller skating queen, author and clothing designer with her own range of stretchy clothing to help you move and feel your best. Marawa has been swimming ...
Nell Frizzell - Making a Splash
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - August 05, 2021 09:54 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week, I dive into the literature of swimming with journalist, author and Vogue columnist Nell Frizzell. Nell worked for a while as a lifeguard at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond, which she wrote about for the Daunt books anthology, At the Pond, and she has written numerous articles about the joy...
Making a Splash Trailer
Making a Splash with Amber Butchart - July 14, 2021 18:59 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWelcome to Making a Splash - the arts and culture podcast that celebrates swimming and the sea. I’m your host Amber Butchart, a dress historian and keen but incredibly unaccomplished sea swimmer. The sea has always been a source of inspiration for me, from writing books about the maritime orig...
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