Ramblings
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.
Episode Playlist
50 episodesSlippy Rocks and Otter Spotting on the Island of Mull
Off the Beaten Track on the Island of Iona
The Slate Island of Seil
The Golden Road, Pembrokeshire
To the World's End, north Wales
Walking in all weathers with nature writer Melissa Harrison.
After Eunice - Guarlford, Worcestershire
95 Ethels in the Peak District
Around Dulwich Woods with Floella Benjamin
Old and New Winchelsea with historian Dr Matthew Green
The Saxon Shore Way in Kent
Oliver Jeffers in Outer Space
Mousehole to Lamorna with Jane Johnson and Abdel Bakrim
Bloody Bridge
Happy Valley
St Mary on the Isles of Scilly with Will Wagstaff and Lucy McRobert
Tresco with Mike Nelhams
A Stunning Hike around Malham Cove
Dovedale with Caravan
Nightjar Impressions near the Hampshire Hangers
Epsom Downs & Langley Vale Wood
Halifax Hikers
The Trundle Sussex with Harriet Thomas
The Hills are Alive! Commoners Choir in Calderdale
The Icknield Way
Villagers' Walks around Timsbury
An Art Walk in the Forest of Dean
Four Waterfalls Walk, South Wales
High Winds & Hail on Orkney
To the Ring of Brodgar
Hiking with Hounds
Great Alne, Warwickshire
The Thames Path in Oxfordshire with Freddie
Ashdown Forest
Brotherly Love in Burton Bradstock
Riverside Rambling near Reading
Tree to Tree Trekking
Training for Kilimanjaro in Cheshire
WalKington, Herefordshire
Sandstone Trail
Into Portpatrick on the Rhins of Galloway
Out of Portpatrick on the Rhins of Galloway
Oldbury on Severn and Inside Planet Earth
Boxing on the beach at Ainsdale
Hope Valley with Anita Sethi
Clare's Highlights
We in Front!
Walking with resistance bands on the South Downs with Julie Ford
The Wild Cliffs of St David's
On the Hoof with Hannah and Chico
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Sign inClare 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.
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- BBC Radio 4
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- Language
- en
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- 308
- Format
- episodic
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