Patrick Barkham is an award-winning author and natural history writer for the Guardian. He is President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust and lives with his family in Norfolk, the county of his birth. He has published extensively on wild topics: The Butterfly Isles, Badgerlands, Coastlines, Islander: a Journey Around Our Archipelago and Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature. He edited The Wild Isles: an Anthology of the Best of British and Irish Nature Writing (2023) and recently published Wild Green Wonders: a Life in Nature (2022). We are delighted that he will talk to us about his new critically acclaimed, intimate biography, The Swimmer: the Wild Life of Roger Deakin (2023). Read more about The Swimmer here