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 12, 2019 · 24 min
- Jun 20, 2019 · 24 min
Going Dutch in Dorset
- Jun 13, 2019 · 24 min
Going Wild in the West Country
- Jun 7, 2019 · 24 min
Proud, Resilient & Native American in the UK
- May 30, 2019 · 24 min
Clare gets lost in Lancashire
- May 23, 2019 · 24 min
Here Comes the Summer - Feargal Sharkey
- May 16, 2019 · 24 min
An Aussie Walkabout... in Norfolk
- Mar 28, 2019 · 27 min
To the Lighthouse!
- Mar 21, 2019 · 24 min
Walking a Poem on The Malverns
- Mar 14, 2019 · 24 min
A Creative Soldier
- Mar 7, 2019 · 24 min
A Cow Parsley Tattoo - Cambridgeshire
- Feb 28, 2019 · 24 min
Long dresses, cloaks and bonnets. Cumbria.
- Feb 21, 2019 · 24 min
Gentle Slopes not Rolling Hills - Suffolk
- Feb 14, 2019 · 24 min
Old Maps and New Routes - Oxfordshire
- Oct 16, 2018 · 24 min
Aviemore, Scotland
- Oct 16, 2018 · 24 min
Dartmoor, Devon
- Oct 16, 2018 · 24 min
Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway
- Sep 27, 2018 · 24 min
Centurion Way, Chichester
- Sep 20, 2018 · 24 min
The Hoo Peninsula, Kent
- Sep 13, 2018 · 25 min
Herefordshire