Downstream

Channel five years before. It
was when ‘a blue tinge’
began creeping up his back,
one of the first signs of
hypothermia, that he was
advised to put on a wetsuit.
David, already well known
as a TV comedian and for his
Channel swim that had raised
a million pounds for Sport
Relief, has a family tradition
of Thames swimming. ‘My
mum swam in the Thames,
she was a keen swimmer and