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
- Feb 23, 2012 · 24 min
Storytelling in Cornwall
- Feb 16, 2012 · 24 min
Northern Ireland - The Wee Binnians
- Feb 9, 2012 · 24 min
Kent - Octavia Hill Centenary Trail
- Oct 22, 2011 · 24 min
Devon - Hope Cove to Salcombe
- Oct 15, 2011 · 24 min
Lincolnshire - The Wolds
- Oct 8, 2011 · 24 min
Discovering Kent from Chilham to Wye
- Oct 1, 2011 · 24 min
Dales Way
- Sep 24, 2011 · 24 min
The Roaches and Lud's Church
- Sep 20, 2011 · 24 min
John Jones - Walking & Gigging
- Jun 25, 2011 · 24 min
Alderley Edge - Alan Garner
- Jun 18, 2011 · 24 min
Daphne Du Maurier - Fowey
- Jun 11, 2011 · 24 min
Darwin - Quantock Hills
- Jun 4, 2011 · 24 min
Malcolm Saville - Shropshire
- May 28, 2011 · 24 min
Hereford - Bruce Chatwin
- May 21, 2011 · 24 min
Heptonstall - Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
- Mar 12, 2011 · 24 min
Birmingham - Lickey Hills
- Mar 5, 2011 · 24 min
Manchester - Marsden
- Feb 26, 2011 · 24 min
Wales - Garth
- Feb 19, 2011 · 24 min
Lancaster - Slyne