Stanley Ulijaszek on Swimming and Summer Solstice Rituals

About this episode

Stanley Ulijaszek reflects on summer solstice swimming and rituals at Oxford, comparing experiences from 2020 and 2025.

A warm June, 2025; a similarly warm June 2020, but in very different circumstances, both times greeting the solstice sun with a swim. Five years since the pandemic, Stanley Ulijaszekreflects in this podcast on summer solstice swimming and other rituals attached to this time of year at Oxford, both then, and now.

People in this episode

Host: Stanley Ulijaszek

Topics covered

• swimming
• summer solstice
• rituals
• pandemic reflection
• Oxford

Keywords

• swimming
• summer solstice
• rituals
• Oxford
• pandemic

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Oxford

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