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 16, 2021 · 24 min
- Sep 9, 2021 · 24 min
White Stags and Kidney Donation in Fife
- Sep 2, 2021 · 24 min
A Sunny Stomp on the Pentland Hills
- Jun 10, 2021 · 25 min
Urban Ambling in Cultural Coventry
- Jun 3, 2021 · 24 min
Mallerstang in Cumbria with Debbie North.
- May 27, 2021 · 25 min
Tales of International Adventure on a Walk in Somerset
- May 20, 2021 · 25 min
Screenwriter Kay Mellor at Harewood in Leeds
- May 13, 2021 · 24 min
Rhiane Fatinikun of Black Girls Hike in the Peak District
- May 6, 2021 · 24 min
Cressida Cowell in West Sussex
- Mar 25, 2021 · 24 min
Stained Glass in Minsmere with Arabella Marshall
- Mar 18, 2021 · 24 min
Walking in Sound: Ellie Williams in North Somerset
- Mar 11, 2021 · 24 min
Big Cats! Rick Minter in Gloucestershire
- Mar 4, 2021 · 25 min
Reading the Landscape with Mary-Ann Ochota: Pegsdon Hills
- Feb 25, 2021 · 24 min
From Solicitor to Sculptor: Simon Gudgeon in Dorset
- Feb 18, 2021 · 24 min
Oscar winner Gareth Ellis-Unwin on his local riverside route in Berkshire
- Feb 11, 2021 · 24 min
Anneka Rice on the Thames Path in London
- Oct 15, 2020 · 24 min
Anita Rani on Hackney and Walthamstow Marshes
- Oct 8, 2020 · 24 min
Beachcombing on the Isle of Sheppey
- Oct 1, 2020 · 24 min
Buckinghamshire with Professor David Wilson
- Sep 24, 2020 · 24 min
Barry Farrimond, who plays Ed Grundy, on Dartmoor