The train that carried Roger Deakin from London to his Suffolk farmhouse passed his four small fields before stopping at Diss station, five miles north.
With his advertising executive’s gift for persuasion, Roger persuaded the driver to slow down on the fast straight outside his home, so he could hop off at his own personal request stop.
Like so many of his generation, Roger made the most of his freedoms. He is best known today for , an entrancing account of swimming via rivers, lakes and
