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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Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth—Series 35
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Clare Balding joins a group of refugees and students who enjoy walking together.
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Isaac's Tea Trail, Allendale—Series 35
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Clare Balding follows the footsteps of a 19th-century itinerant tea seller.
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Hampshire Jane Austen—Series 35
Thu 16 Mar 2017
Clare Balding walks in the footsteps of Jane Austen, from Chawton to Farringdon near Alton
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Clwyd Hillforts—Series 35
Thu 9 Mar 2017
Clare Balding heads for the Clwyd hills in north Wales to discover Iron Age hillforts.
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Great Hucklow, Derbyshire—Series 35
Thu 2 Mar 2017
Clare Balding is in the Peaks to join a group who have been walking together for 25 years.
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Derrigimlagh, Ireland—Series 35
Thu 23 Feb 2017
Clare Balding explores a new pathway across one of Ireland's biggest bogs at Derrigimlagh.
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The Doolough Famine Walk, County Mayo—Series 35
Thu 16 Feb 2017
Clare Balding discovers the Doolough Tragedy Famine Walk in County Mayo, Ireland.
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Suffolk with Geoff Nicholson—Series 34
Thu 20 Oct 2016
Clare Balding joins writer Geoff Nicholson to talk about the history of walking.
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The South Downs Way—Series 34
Thu 13 Oct 2016
Clare Balding walks on the South Downs, remembering the poetry of Eleanor Farjeon.
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Ripon to Ripley—Series 34
Thu 6 Oct 2016
Clare Balding walks from Ripon to Ripley remembering the men of the Jarrow Crusade.
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Hebden Bridge—Series 34
Thu 29 Sep 2016
Clare Balding joins a family from Hebden Bridge for whom walking is a vital experience.
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The Pilgrims Way—Series 34
Thu 22 Sep 2016
Clare Balding takes this ancient way to discover the power and popularity of pilgrimage.
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Passionate Walkers: David Nicholls—Series 34
Thu 15 Sep 2016
Clare Balding meets novelist David Nicholls to walk to The Devil's Punchbowl in Surrey.
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Northumberland: Bothy Bagging—Series 33
Thu 23 Jun 2016
Clare Balding meets Phoebe Smith, an expert in planning long walks and bagging bothies.
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The Cotswold Way—Series 33
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Clare Balding walks with Graham Hoyland and Gina Waggott along the Cotswold Way.
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Severn Way with Lucy Newcombe—Series 33
Thu 9 Jun 2016
Clare Balding catches up with Lucy Newcombe as she walks around the coast of Britain.
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Wayfarers Walk with Nigel Clifford—Series 33
Thu 2 Jun 2016
Clare Balding walks from Coombe Gibbet to Highclere with the CEO of OS, Nigel Clifford.
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The Essex Way—Series 33
Thu 26 May 2016
Clare Balding meets four women about to embark on walking the Essex Way in three days.
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Glyndwr's Way with Ursula Martin—Series 33
Thu 19 May 2016
Clare Balding walks Glyndwr's Way with Ursula Martin, who's walked over 3,000 round Wales.
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Isle of Dogs—Series 32
Thu 31 Mar 2016
An unusual urban walk to finish the series as Clare Balding rambles on the Isle of Dogs.
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Eyam, Derbyshire—Series 32
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Clare Balding walks to the 'plague village' of Eyam in Derbyshire in this week's programme
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Oxfordshire: In Memory of Catherine—Series 32
Thu 17 Mar 2016
Clare Balding joins a group of women who walk each year to remember their friend Catherine
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Trent, Dorset—Series 32
Thu 10 Mar 2016
Clare Balding joins a lively primary school walking club in the Dorset countryside.
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Samaritans—Series 32
Thu 3 Mar 2016
Clare Balding walks with a group of Samaritans' volunteers and their families.
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Loughrigg Fell - Simon Ingram—Series 32
Thu 25 Feb 2016
Clare Balding walks up Loughrigg Fellm near Grasmere, with the writer Simon Ingram.
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Walking with a Purpose: The Surrey Hills—Series 32
Thu 18 Feb 2016
Clare Balding walks in the Surrey Hills with Jenni Williams and her disabled daughter Eve.
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Artists' Ways - North Somerset—Series 31
Thu 22 Oct 2015
Clare Balding walks with Carolyn Savidge in north Somerset.
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Artists' Ways - Wiltshire—Series 31
Thu 15 Oct 2015
Clare Balding walks with Matthew Hopwood in Wiltshire.
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Nun Appleton House, North Yorkshire—Series 31
Thu 8 Oct 2015
Clare Balding walks in the footsteps of the poet Andrew Marvell.
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Artists' Ways - Falkirk—Series 31
Thu 1 Oct 2015
Clare Balding walks along the Forth & Clyde Canal to the spectacular 30-metre high Kelpies
Clare's top 30
Listen to a selection of favourite walks from Ramblings.