In Popular Culture
A BBC Radio 4 play, The Great Swim by Anita Sullivan based on the 2008 book of the same name by Gavin Mortimer was first broadcast on September 1, 2010 and repeated on January 23, 2012. It dramatises Ederle's record-breaking crossing of the English Channel.
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