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Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell: These Heavy Black Bones

Name: Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell: These Heavy Black Bones
Start: 2025-06-13T18:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-13T19:45:00+01:00
Location: JRW Hogg & Thorburn Marquee

Rebecca reflects on her journey from elite swimmer to writer, exploring race, sport and the personal cost of public success.

Friday, 13 June 2025

6:45pm ‐ 7:45pm

JRW Hogg & Thorburn Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

https://tikt.link/rebeccaach

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This is a remarkable, very different account of the achievement of sporting excellence. Rebecca was a double British swimming champion and the first Black woman ever to swim for Great Britain. As her body and mind are sharpened through gruelling training, press scrutiny and the trials of adolescence, Rebecca charts the rise of her career and her love of the water before explaining why she walked away from it all. Cathy Rentzenbrink wrote that it ‘reads with the tension of a thriller, illuminating the world of elite sport’. In conversation with Michael Moore.