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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

  • Mar 1, 2012 · 24 min

    Kinder Scout

    Clare Balding presents a series of inspirational walks in the British countryside.

  • Feb 23, 2012 · 24 min

    Storytelling in Cornwall

    Clare joins writer and storyteller Anna Maria Murphy on a walk in Cornwall.

  • Oct 15, 2011 · 24 min

    Lincolnshire - The Wolds

    Clare Balding discovers that the Lincolnshire Wolds are not as flat as most people think.

  • Oct 1, 2011 · 24 min

    Dales Way

    Clare Balding walks a section of the Dales Way with its creator, Colin Speakman.

  • Jun 18, 2011 · 24 min

    Daphne Du Maurier - Fowey

    Clare Balding explores the Cornish countryside which inspired Daphne Du Maurier's novels.

  • Jun 11, 2011 · 24 min

    Darwin - Quantock Hills

    Clare Balding takes an 'evolutionary walk' in the Quantock Hills in Somerset.

  • May 28, 2011 · 24 min

    Hereford - Bruce Chatwin

    Clare Balding walks on the Black Hill near to Hereford in the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin.

  • Mar 5, 2011 · 24 min

    Manchester - Marsden

    Stuart Maconie takes in the Manchester skyline with poet Simon Armitage.

  • Feb 26, 2011 · 24 min

    Wales - Garth

    Stuart Maconie hikes up the Garth outside Cardiff with a group of women walkers.

  • Feb 19, 2011 · 24 min

    Lancaster - Slyne

    Stuart Maconie continues a series of city skyline walks for winter days.