Season 5 of An Open Water Swimmer’s Podcast, host William Ellis kicked off with interviews of Samantha Farrow (32, Great Britain, MSF bio here) and Sarah Thomas (42, USA, MSF bio here, @sarahswims04).
Farrow completed a 72.8 km crossing Lake Geneva in 2024 in 22 hours 48 minutes to set the women’s record. A lake specialist, she has also swum Lake Windermere, Lake Bala, Loch Awe, Loch Ness, and Loch Lomond.
As host Ellis describes Thomas, “This lady needs no introduction having swum the only quadruple English Channel and she was the first person to swim a double North Channel.”
In Season 5 to date, Ellis has talked with:
- Gerrard Gosens (listen here)
- Samantha Farrow (listen here)
- Sarah Thomas (listen here)
In Season 4, Ellis talked with:
- Ger Kennedy (listen here)
- Lee Johnson (listen here)
- Brian Foster (listen here)
- Amber Keegan (listen here)
- Paul de Waard (listen here)
- Halani Moss-Vete (listen here)
- Jonty Warneken (listen here)
- Emma France (listen here)
- Phillip Rush (listen here)
- Amy Ennion (listen here)
- Neil Gilson (listen here)
- Tom Gregory (listen here)
- Eva Buzo (listen here)
- Hector Pardoe (listen here)
- Sarah Thomas (listen here)
During Season 3, Ellis talked with :
- Martyn Webster (listen here)
- Andrew Donaldson (listen here)
- Mark Andrews (listen here)
- Niklas Heddegard (listen here)
- Kate Steels (listen here)
- Lorraine Candy (listen here)
- Cliff Golding (listen here)
- Jessica Hepburn (listen here)
- Mark Sheridan (listen here)
- Steven Munatones (listen here)
- Shannon Keegan (listen here)
- Professor Greg Whyte O.B.E. (listen here)
During Season 2, he interviewed:
- Sally Minty-Gravett M.B.E. (listen here and here)
- Chloë McCardel (listen here)
- Thomas Lurz (listen here)
- Caroline Saxon (listen here),
- Ray Gibbs (listen here)
- Sophie Etheridge (listen here)
- Jonathan Cowie (listen here)
- Alice Goodridge (listen here)
- John Doolittle (listen here)
- Cath Pendleton (listen here)
- Chris Bryan (listen here)
- Anna Wardley (listen here)
- Colin Hill (listen here)
In his inaugural Season 1, he interviewed:
- Sarah Thomas (listen here)
- Eddy Temple-Morris (listen here)
- Paul Newsome (listen here)
- Tim Donovan (listen here)
- Karlyn Pipes (listen here)
- Simon Griffiths (listen here)
- Tommy Kay (listen here)
- Jaimie Monahan (listen here)
- Kath Ferguson (listen here)
- David Walliams (listen here)
- Simon Murie (listen here)
- Keri-Anne Payne (listen here)
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