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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Larkhall, South Lanarkshire—Series 21
Thu 14 Jun 2012
Clare walks with veteran long-distance walker Scott Cunningham and his 'best mate', Travis
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Alnmouth, Northumberland—Series 21
Thu 7 Jun 2012
Clare walks with Kelly and Carolyn and dogs Mel the border terrier and Kizzy the lurcher.
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Dartmoor—Series 21
Thu 31 May 2012
Clare walks with members of the Tavistock-Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team, and their dogs.
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Flamborough Head to Bridlington—Series 21
Thu 24 May 2012
Clare Balding meets Stuart and his dog Poppy, walking round England for charity.
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Sir Andrew Motion—Inspirational Walks
Thu 15 Mar 2012
Clare Balding is joined by the former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion.
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Brecon Beacons - Art in the Park—Inspirational Walks
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Clare Balding is in the Brecon Beacons for the fifth in a series of inspirational walks.
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Kinder Scout—Inspirational Walks
Thu 1 Mar 2012
Clare Balding presents a series of inspirational walks in the British countryside.
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Storytelling in Cornwall—Inspirational Walks
Thu 23 Feb 2012
Clare joins writer and storyteller Anna Maria Murphy on a walk in Cornwall.
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Northern Ireland - The Wee Binnians—Inspirational Walks
Thu 16 Feb 2012
Clare joins members of the Wee Binnians, Northern Ireland's biggest walking club.
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Kent - Octavia Hill Centenary Trail—Inspirational Walks
Thu 9 Feb 2012
In the first of a new series, Clare walks along the Octavia Hill Centenary Trail in Kent.
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Devon - Hope Cove to Salcombe—Listener's Walks
Sat 22 Oct 2011
Clare Balding walks a stretch of the South West Coastal Path from Hope Cove to Salcombe.
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Lincolnshire - The Wolds—Listener's Walks
Sat 15 Oct 2011
Clare Balding discovers that the Lincolnshire Wolds are not as flat as most people think.
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Discovering Kent from Chilham to Wye—Listener's Walks
Sat 8 Oct 2011
Clare Balding discovers the delights of walking along the ancient pathways of Kent.
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Dales Way—Listener's Walks
Sat 1 Oct 2011
Clare Balding walks a section of the Dales Way with its creator, Colin Speakman.
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The Roaches and Lud's Church—Listener's Walks
Sat 24 Sep 2011
Clare Balding walks along the gritstone escarpment of The Roaches in Staffordshire.
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John Jones - Walking & Gigging—Listener's Walks
Sat 17 Sep 2011
Clare Balding joins folk singer and avid walker John Jones in the Chiltern Hills.
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Alderley Edge - Alan Garner—Literary Walks
Sat 25 Jun 2011
Clare Balding explores the countryside of Alderley Edge with author Alan Garner.
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Daphne Du Maurier - Fowey—Literary Walks
Sat 18 Jun 2011
Clare Balding explores the Cornish countryside which inspired Daphne Du Maurier's novels.
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Darwin - Quantock Hills—Literary Walks
Sat 11 Jun 2011
Clare Balding takes an 'evolutionary walk' in the Quantock Hills in Somerset.
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Malcolm Saville - Shropshire—Literary Walks
Sat 4 Jun 2011
Clare Balding joins walkers and members of the Malcolm Saville society in Shropshire.
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Hereford - Bruce Chatwin—Literary Walks
Sat 28 May 2011
Clare Balding walks on the Black Hill near to Hereford in the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin.
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Heptonstall - Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath—Literary Walks
Sat 21 May 2011
Clare Balding is back with a new series of walks with a literary theme.
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Birmingham - Lickey Hills—Series 17
Sat 12 Mar 2011
Stuart Maconie walks the Lickey Hills near Birmingham.
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Manchester - Marsden—Series 17
Sat 5 Mar 2011
Stuart Maconie takes in the Manchester skyline with poet Simon Armitage.
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Wales - Garth—Series 17
Sat 26 Feb 2011
Stuart Maconie hikes up the Garth outside Cardiff with a group of women walkers.
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Lancaster - Slyne—Series 17
Sat 19 Feb 2011
Stuart Maconie continues a series of city skyline walks for winter days.
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Ireland - Belfast Hills—Series 17
Sat 12 Feb 2011
Stuart Maconie takes the second of six city skyline walks.
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Somerset - Bath Skyline—Series 17
Sat 5 Feb 2011
Keen walker Stuart Maconie takes in the stunning views on the Bath Skyline Walk.
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Scotland - Glasgow Necropolis—Series 16
Sat 23 Oct 2010
Clare Balding walks through the Glasgow Necropolis.
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Scotland - Pentland Hills—Series 16
Sat 16 Oct 2010
Clare Balding walks with the Friends of the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.
Clare's top 30
Listen to a selection of favourite walks from Ramblings.