Roger Deakin
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A lore unto himself: Owen Sheers is having his way with an ancient myth...a conscious aim but is happy to be associated with a trend that includes the bestselling travelogues of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Kate Rew and the small-screen successes of Coast. "More and more of us are living in urban... In this article: Owen Sheers, Britain, Resistance, '...when Matthew, London, New York, Dylan Thomas, and BBC Four |
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The Roger Deakin Memorial Dip 2009 - Twist Films
It's late September and time for a wild swim in the chilly English Channel. It's a Roger Deakin (RIP) tribute, the writer of the inspirational book: 'Waterlog'. The 2009 dip was at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England. Invigorating and liberating. The 2010 swim - possibly a loch - is open to all, so contact me if interested.
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The Roger Deakin Memorial Dip 2008 - Twist Films
The first Roger Deakin Memorial Dip took place on the River Lea August Bank Holiday 2008. Jon Nickoll and Paul Fletcher got down to their trunks and fell in the polluted waterway. Directed / Edited by Paul Fletcher Camera: Liza Fletcher
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For the English cinematographer see Roger Deakins
Roger Stuart Deakin (11 February 1943 in Watford, Hertfordshire – 19 August 2006 in Mellis, Suffolk) was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist.
Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read English, he first worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director.
In 1968 he bought an Elizabethan moated farmhouse on the edge of Mellis Common, near Diss where he lived until his death from a brain tumour, first diagnosed only four months before his death.
Deakin was a founder director of the arts/environmental charity Common Ground in 1982.
In 1999 his acclaimed book Waterlog was published by Chatto and Windus in the United Kingdom. Inspired in part by a short story by John Cheever, The Swimmer, (Burt Lancaster was in the film), it describes his experiences of 'wild swimming', swimming in Britain's rivers and lakes and is both a campaigning work and poetic odyssey. Wildwood, appeared posthumously in 2007 and in November 2008, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm - a collection of writing taken from his personal notebooks was published to high critical appraisal.
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