Ramblings
BBC Radio 4
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.
- 308 episodes
- Updated July 2
Episodes308
- Jun 9, 2016 · 24 min
- Jun 2, 2016 · 23 min
Wayfarers Walk with Nigel Clifford
- May 26, 2016 · 24 min
The Essex Way
- May 19, 2016 · 24 min
Glyndwr's Way with Ursula Martin
- Mar 31, 2016 · 24 min
Isle of Dogs
- Mar 24, 2016 · 24 min
Eyam, Derbyshire
- Mar 17, 2016 · 24 min
Oxfordshire: In Memory of Catherine
- Mar 10, 2016 · 24 min
Trent, Dorset
- Mar 3, 2016 · 24 min
Samaritans
- Feb 25, 2016 · 24 min
Loughrigg Fell - Simon Ingram
- Feb 18, 2016 · 24 min
Walking with a Purpose: The Surrey Hills
- Oct 22, 2015 · 24 min
Artists' Ways - North Somerset
- Oct 16, 2015 · 24 min
Artists' Ways - Wiltshire
- Oct 14, 2015 · 24 min
Nun Appleton House, North Yorkshire
Oct 1, 2015 · 24 minArtists' Ways - Falkirk
- Sep 22, 2015 · 24 min
Windsor Great Park with Bill Bryson
- Sep 17, 2015 · 24 min
Artists Ways: Louise Ann Wilson, Warnscale
- Jun 30, 2015 · 24 min
Edge Hill
- Jun 30, 2015 · 24 min
The Red Ramblers in Dorset
- Jun 11, 2015 · 24 min
The Malvern Hills