The Thames, right now is not the universally clean and sparkling river of my dreams. This podcast is about trying to understand, as a swimmer, the problems surrounding rivers in the UK right now – the dumping of raw sewage, of pollution. How did we get into this watery mess? If it were simple, it would have been solved - so what is going on? 
The music links are ‘Love is All Around’ by The Troggs; ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ sung by the choir of wells Cathedral; ‘Feeling Good’ by Nina Simone.