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5: Have you ever thought about swimming the channel?
Gill is challenged to swim the Channel, gets a place and starts two years of training.
Gill is challenged to swim the English Channel, gets a place and starts two years of training. We hear from Gill’s swimming coach and channel swimming legend Sally Minty-Gravett: the first person to swim the channel in six different decades of her life. The danger of the task ahead is brought home when news of a fatality reaches Gill. Supporters, including women she’s helped and her support crew, offer Gill advice and the artist Tracey Emin delivers a moving good luck message. Gill explains how she hopes swimming the channel will prove to Sam that his birth didn’t ruin her life.
