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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

  • Jun 4, 2015 · 24 min

    Lyke Wake Walk

    Clare Balding undertakes a section of the Lyke Wake Walk on the North York Moors.

  • May 21, 2015 · 24 min

    Royal Greenwich Park

    Clare Balding walks with a group of parents who each have children with special needs.

  • Mar 5, 2015 · 24 min

    Cardiac Walkers

    Clare Balding walks with a group of retired medics who have all suffered a 'cardiac event'

  • Oct 23, 2014 · 24 min

    The Dales Way, Part Six

    Clare walks the final leg of her journey with Colin Spearman, designer of the route.

  • Oct 16, 2014 · 24 min

    The Dales Way, Part Five

    Clare Balding walks from Dent to Sedbergh on her fifth leg of the Dales Way.

  • Oct 9, 2014 · 24 min

    The Dales Way, Part Four

    Clare Balding walks from Buckden to Beckermonds with John Sparshatt and Randal Metzger.

  • Oct 2, 2014 · 23 min

    The Dales Way, Part Three

    Clare Balding walks from Grassington to Kettlewell on the third leg of the Dales Way.

  • Sep 25, 2014 · 23 min

    The Dales Way, Part Two

    Clare Balding embarks on the second leg of her journey along the Dales Way.

  • Sep 18, 2014 · 24 min

    The Dales Way, Part One

    Clare Balding sets off to walk the Dales Way, one of England's most-loved walking routes.

  • Jun 19, 2014 · 24 min

    Arundel, West Sussex

    Clare walks near Arundel in West Sussex with Tristan Gooley.

  • Jun 5, 2014 · 24 min

    The Doward

    Clare walks on the Doward with Nadia Smith, who has had two partial hip replacements.

  • May 29, 2014 · 24 min

    Hay-on-Wye

    Clare Balding walks near Hay-on-Wye with a group who met while horse-trekking in Mongolia.