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
- Sep 15, 2022 · 24 min
- Sep 8, 2022 · 24 min
Dovedale with Caravan
- Sep 1, 2022 · 24 min
A Stunning Hike around Malham Cove
- Jun 10, 2022 · 24 min
Tresco with Mike Nelhams
- Jun 10, 2022 · 24 min
St Mary on the Isles of Scilly with Will Wagstaff and Lucy McRobert
- May 26, 2022 · 24 min
Happy Valley
- May 19, 2022 · 24 min
Bloody Bridge
- May 12, 2022 · 24 min
Mousehole to Lamorna with Jane Johnson and Abdel Bakrim
- Apr 5, 2022 · 24 min
Oliver Jeffers in Outer Space
- Mar 31, 2022 · 24 min
The Saxon Shore Way in Kent
- Mar 24, 2022 · 24 min
Old and New Winchelsea with historian Dr Matthew Green
- Mar 18, 2022 · 24 min
Around Dulwich Woods with Floella Benjamin
- Mar 10, 2022 · 24 min
95 Ethels in the Peak District
- Mar 3, 2022 · 24 min
After Eunice - Guarlford, Worcestershire
- Feb 21, 2022 · 24 min
Walking in all weathers with nature writer Melissa Harrison.
- Feb 17, 2022 · 24 min
To the World's End, north Wales
- Feb 3, 2022 · 24 min
The Golden Road, Pembrokeshire
- Oct 7, 2021 · 24 min
The Slate Island of Seil
- Oct 4, 2021 · 24 min
Off the Beaten Track on the Island of Iona
- Sep 23, 2021 · 25 min
Slippy Rocks and Otter Spotting on the Island of Mull