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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.

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Episodes

312 episodes

  1. Upper Swaledale, North Yorkshire 23:43
  2. Seatoller to Castle Crag 23:48
  3. From Limpsfield Common to Everest with David Sullivan 23:42
  4. Ham and Petersham, Richmond upon Thames 23:43
  5. In the Footsteps of Little Nell 23:44
  6. Bosham to West Itchenor in West Sussex 23:50
  7. The Wrekin with Marlon Patrice 23:44
  8. Mending Footpaths in Eryri 23:45
  9. Anglesey/Ynys Môn 23:47
  10. Fetternear, Aberdeenshire 23:40
  11. Bailies of Bennachie 23:50
  12. Brockley and Ladywell with Hana Sutch 23:46
  13. Terminal Hillness in the north Lakes 23:46
  14. Ghosts of the Farm with Nicola Chester 23:47
  15. Bredon Hill with Steve Boycott 23:48
  16. Adventurer Pom Oliver in the Low Weald 23:50
  17. Walking Back to Happiness 23:42
  18. The Gower Peninsula to Antarctica 23:49
  19. India in the Cotswolds with Corinne Fowler and Raj Pal 23:44
  20. Whispering Rocks with Anjana Khatwa 23:48
  21. Nick Wilson - the Disabled Adventurer 23:49
  22. Crime and Punishment in the Peak District 23:43
  23. Walk for Wendy - Chater Valley 23:45
  24. Clare Balding's in Town! 23:42
  25. Camino Memories with the Ciao Ciao Girls 23:54
  26. Camino Memories in Penicuik 23:54
  27. Arriving in Santiago de Compostela with Sharon, Shirley and friends 23:54
  28. Camino Inglés with Jannine and Sally 23:54
  29. Living on the Camino de Santiago 23:54
  30. Camino Francés with Maggie McLean 23:53
  31. Camino de Santiago with Manni Coe 23:54
  32. Rerouting the Shropshire Way 24:15
  33. Capel y ffin and the Twmpa 24:17
  34. Fife - Clatto Reservoir to Pitscottie 24:10
  35. 60-60-60 in the Southern Pentlands 24:18
  36. Trees in Winter near Abergavenny 24:16
  37. Clare's 25th Year! Bakewell with the RamSoc 24:19
  38. Chief Scout Dwayne Fields in Epping Forest 24:12
  39. The Old Lags - Bristol 24:15
  40. River Itchen - Hampshire 24:16
  41. Lise Wortley - Woman with Altitude 24:19
  42. Alan Titchmarsh on the Isle of Wight 24:16
  43. GM Ringway - a new 200-mile walking route 24:18
  44. Arsenic and Fish Weirs on the Edge of Dartmoor 24:08
  45. Amar Latif - President of the Ramblers in North Yorkshire 24:19
  46. Surrey - from Oaks Park to Kingswood 24:19
  47. Every Body Outdoors in Gloucestershire 24:21
  48. Donegal with rock climber and mountain guide Iain Miller 24:17
  49. Donegal with Nikki Bradley - Adaptive Adventurer and Amputee 24:20
  50. Blowy Bamburgh Beach with David Almond 24:20