Ramblings Podcast
Clare Balding and guests share inspiring conversations while walking in the great outdoors. Fresh air, nature, gorgeous views and uplifting chat all while exploring the countryside
Clare Balding and guests share inspiring conversations while walking in the great outdoors.
Fresh air and nature, wonderful views and uplifting chat, each week Clare hikes in a different part of our glorious countryside. Walking side by side is the perfect way to cover a huge range of subjects: literature, art, wildlife, nature, taking on personal or physical challenges, dealing with grief, confronting preconceptions about the kind of people who love to ramble.
The conversations are as varied as the landscapes we find ourselves in. If there's a recurring theme, it's the accepted truth that 'solvitur ambulando' - 'it is solved through walking': The sense of wellness, the benefits to mental health, easy companionship, or sometimes just the sense of solitude that being alone in nature brings.
Few things are better than going for a good walk. That's what we aim to share each week on Ramblings with Clare Balding.
Episodes to download
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Walking a Poem on The Malverns—Series 41
Thu 21 Mar 2019
Clare Balding and the newly appointed Troubadour of the Hills take a poem for a walk
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A Creative Soldier—Series 41
Thu 14 Mar 2019
Clare Balding walks across Dartmoor with the former head of the Royal Marines.
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A Cow Parsley Tattoo - Cambridgeshire—Series 41
Thu 7 Mar 2019
A cow parsley tattoo, hibernating ladybirds, and a lurcher called Annie.
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Long dresses, cloaks and bonnets. Cumbria.—Series 41
Thu 28 Feb 2019
Why climb a snowy Cumbrian hill in a long dress, cloak and bonnet? Clare Balding finds out
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Gentle Slopes not Rolling Hills - Suffolk—Series 41
Thu 21 Feb 2019
Clare Balding and her fellow walkers take in the delights of rural Suffolk
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Old Maps and New Routes - Oxfordshire—Series 41
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Clare Balding walks with a committed listener who creates her own walking routes.
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Aviemore, Scotland—Series 40
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Clare Balding joins a group of recent graduates on the Speyside Way
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Dartmoor, Devon—Series 40
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Dartmoor is the walking territory of writer Tom Cox, author of 21st Century Yokel
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Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway—Series 40
Thu 4 Oct 2018
Walking the Whithorn Way in south west Scotland
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Centurion Way, Chichester—Series 40
Thu 27 Sep 2018
This is the uplifting story of how walking helped a young man recover from a brain injury.
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The Hoo Peninsula, Kent—Series 40
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Clare Balding is walking in someone else's shoes for this edition of Ramblings.
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Herefordshire—Series 40
Thu 13 Sep 2018
Clare Balding walks in Herefordshire with Dr Kate Harding who has a moving story to tell.
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Cairngorms—Series 39
Thu 21 Jun 2018
Clare Balding goes on a musical walk with the composer Alexander Chapman Campbell.
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Laugharne—Series 39
Thu 14 Jun 2018
Clare Balding walks with a group of retired medics in Laugharne, South West Wales.
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Up to the Dashwood Mausoleum—Series 39
Thu 7 Jun 2018
Clare Balding walks to the extraordinary Dashwood Mausoleum near High Wycombe.
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Church Stretton—Series 39
Thu 31 May 2018
Clare Balding goes for a hike in Little Switzerland, aka Church Stretton, in Shropshire.
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Reigate, Surrey—Series 39
Thu 24 May 2018
Clare Balding walks with former detainees of the Gatwick Immigration Removal Centres.
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Hembury Fort, Honiton—Series 39
Thu 17 May 2018
A chaotic and lively dog-walk in Devon kicks off the new series, with Clare Balding.
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Purton, Gloucestershire—Series 38
Thu 29 Mar 2018
Clare Balding walks along the banks of the Severn with writer, Christopher Somerville.
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York—Series 38
Thu 22 Mar 2018
Clare Balding joins Gill Callow on one of her regular walks around York.
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Black Men's Walking for Health Group—Series 38
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Clare Balding joins Maxwell Ayamba and the Black Men's Walking group he set up.
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Crouch End to Bloomsbury, London—Series 38
Thu 8 Mar 2018
Clare Balding joins archaeologist Charlotte Frearson on her morning walk to work.
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Aberlady Bay—Series 38
Thu 1 Mar 2018
Clare Balding walks with the staff, pupils and parents of Saltersgate School, Midlothian.
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Greens Norton, Northamptonshire—Series 38
Thu 22 Feb 2018
Clare Balding joins Christina Edwards as she relives the night walks she took in her teens
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Stanton Moor and Robin Hood's Stride from Winster—Series 38
Thu 15 Feb 2018
Clare Balding walks from Winster in the Peak District with comedian Ed Byrne.
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Listeners' Walks: Stoke-on-Trent—Series 37
Thu 19 Oct 2017
Clare Balding joins five friends who are walking the Two Saints Way, Chester to Lichfield.
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Listeners' Walks: Isle of Man, Kallow Point—Series 37
Thu 12 Oct 2017
Clare Balding continues her exploration of the Isle of Man walking along the coastal path.
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Listeners' Walks: Isle of Man, Glen Dhoo—Series 37
Thu 5 Oct 2017
Clare Balding gets her wish and samples the variety of walks on offer on the Isle of Man.
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Overton Hill, The Ridgeway—Series 37
Thu 28 Sep 2017
Clare Balding joins Jo Fielder, who has MS and is planning to walk the Ridgeway in 7 days.
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Listeners' Walks: Blaenau Ffestiniog—Series 37
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Clare Balding walks in north Wales in the company of three generations of the same family.
Clare's top 30
Listen to a selection of favourite walks from Ramblings.