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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

  • May 26, 2016 · 24 min

    The Essex Way

    Clare Balding meets four women about to embark on walking the Essex Way in three days.

  • Mar 31, 2016 · 24 min

    Isle of Dogs

    An unusual urban walk to finish the series as Clare Balding rambles on the Isle of Dogs.

  • Mar 24, 2016 · 24 min

    Eyam, Derbyshire

    Clare Balding walks to the 'plague village' of Eyam in Derbyshire in this week's programme

  • Mar 10, 2016 · 24 min

    Trent, Dorset

    Clare Balding joins a lively primary school walking club in the Dorset countryside.

  • Mar 3, 2016 · 24 min

    Samaritans

    Clare Balding walks with a group of Samaritans' volunteers and their families.

  • Oct 1, 2015 · 24 min

    Artists' Ways - Falkirk

    Clare Balding walks along the Forth & Clyde Canal to the spectacular 30-metre high Kelpies

  • Jun 30, 2015 · 24 min

    Edge Hill

    Clare Balding joins a group of fathers who have been walking together for 20 years.

  • Jun 11, 2015 · 24 min

    The Malvern Hills

    Clare Balding becomes part of Team Zulu as she strides the Malvern Hills in a pith helmet.