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Page last updated at 09:57 GMT, Wednesday, 21 December 2011

The 'exhilaration' of wild swimming

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Cold water swimmers

Throughout autumn and winter, people around the UK gather for coldwater swims, including on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

Author Susie Parr, who has written about "wild swimming" in the Story of Swimming and 74-year-old Georgina Rose from Clevedon talk about their passion for taking the icy plunge.

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