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
- Jul 3, 2025 · 23 min
- Jun 26, 2025 · 23 min
Camino Memories in Penicuik
- Jun 19, 2025 · 23 min
Arriving in Santiago de Compostela with Sharon, Shirley and friends
- Jun 12, 2025 · 23 min
Camino Inglés with Jannine and Sally
- Jun 5, 2025 · 23 min
Living on the Camino de Santiago
- May 29, 2025 · 23 min
Camino Francés with Maggie McLean
- May 22, 2025 · 23 min
Camino de Santiago with Manni Coe
- Feb 13, 2025 · 24 min
Rerouting the Shropshire Way
- Feb 6, 2025 · 24 min
Capel y ffin and the Twmpa
- Jan 30, 2025 · 24 min
Fife - Clatto Reservoir to Pitscottie
- Jan 23, 2025 · 24 min
60-60-60 in the Southern Pentlands
- Jan 16, 2025 · 24 min
Trees in Winter near Abergavenny
- Jan 9, 2025 · 24 min
Clare's 25th Year! Bakewell with the RamSoc
- Nov 21, 2024 · 24 min
Chief Scout Dwayne Fields in Epping Forest
- Nov 14, 2024 · 24 min
The Old Lags - Bristol
- Nov 7, 2024 · 24 min
River Itchen - Hampshire
- Oct 31, 2024 · 24 min
Lise Wortley - Woman with Altitude
- Oct 24, 2024 · 24 min
Alan Titchmarsh on the Isle of Wight
- Oct 17, 2024 · 24 min
GM Ringway - a new 200-mile walking route
- Oct 10, 2024 · 24 min
Arsenic and Fish Weirs on the Edge of Dartmoor