Ramblings Podcast
Clare Balding and guests share inspiring conversations while walking in the great outdoors. Fresh air, nature, gorgeous views and uplifting chat all while exploring the countryside
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.
Episodes to download
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Listeners' Walks: Blaenau Ffestiniog—Series 37
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Clare Balding walks in north Wales in the company of three generations of the same family.
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Listeners' Walks: Cornwall—Series 37
Thu 14 Sep 2017
Clare Balding walks from Constantine Bay around to Harlyn along the Cornish coast.
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The Nidderdale Way: Brimham Rocks to Pateley Bridge—Series 36
Thu 22 Jun 2017
Clare Balding embarks on her last leg of the Nidderdale Way.
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The Nidderdale Way: Birstwith to Thornton Moor—Series 36
Thu 15 Jun 2017
Clare Balding nears the end of her walk along the Nidderdale Way.
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The Nidderdale Way: Bewerley to Dacre Banks—Series 36
Thu 8 Jun 2017
Clare Balding continues her journey along the Nidderdale Way, a circular walk of 53 miles.
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The Nidderdale Way: Gouthwaite to Bewerley—Series 36
Thu 1 Jun 2017
Clare Balding sets out on the third section of the Nidderdale Way, a 53-mile circular walk
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The Nidderdale Way: Scar House Reservoir to Ramsgill—Series 36
Thu 25 May 2017
Clare Balding embarks on the second leg of the Nidderdale Way, a 53-mile circular walk.
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The Nidderdale Way: Pateley Bridge to Scar House Reservoir—Series 36
Thu 18 May 2017
Clare Balding sets out to walk the Nidderdale Way, a 53-mile route in North Yorkshire.
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Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth—Series 35
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Clare Balding joins a group of refugees and students who enjoy walking together.
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Isaac's Tea Trail, Allendale—Series 35
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Clare Balding follows the footsteps of a 19th-century itinerant tea seller.
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Hampshire Jane Austen—Series 35
Thu 16 Mar 2017
Clare Balding walks in the footsteps of Jane Austen, from Chawton to Farringdon near Alton
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Clwyd Hillforts—Series 35
Thu 9 Mar 2017
Clare Balding heads for the Clwyd hills in north Wales to discover Iron Age hillforts.
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Great Hucklow, Derbyshire—Series 35
Thu 2 Mar 2017
Clare Balding is in the Peaks to join a group who have been walking together for 25 years.
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Derrigimlagh, Ireland—Series 35
Thu 23 Feb 2017
Clare Balding explores a new pathway across one of Ireland's biggest bogs at Derrigimlagh.
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The Doolough Famine Walk, County Mayo—Series 35
Thu 16 Feb 2017
Clare Balding discovers the Doolough Tragedy Famine Walk in County Mayo, Ireland.
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Suffolk with Geoff Nicholson—Series 34
Thu 20 Oct 2016
Clare Balding joins writer Geoff Nicholson to talk about the history of walking.
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The South Downs Way—Series 34
Thu 13 Oct 2016
Clare Balding walks on the South Downs, remembering the poetry of Eleanor Farjeon.
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Ripon to Ripley—Series 34
Thu 6 Oct 2016
Clare Balding walks from Ripon to Ripley remembering the men of the Jarrow Crusade.
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Hebden Bridge—Series 34
Thu 29 Sep 2016
Clare Balding joins a family from Hebden Bridge for whom walking is a vital experience.
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The Pilgrims Way—Series 34
Thu 22 Sep 2016
Clare Balding takes this ancient way to discover the power and popularity of pilgrimage.
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Passionate Walkers: David Nicholls—Series 34
Thu 15 Sep 2016
Clare Balding meets novelist David Nicholls to walk to The Devil's Punchbowl in Surrey.
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Northumberland: Bothy Bagging—Series 33
Thu 23 Jun 2016
Clare Balding meets Phoebe Smith, an expert in planning long walks and bagging bothies.
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The Cotswold Way—Series 33
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Clare Balding walks with Graham Hoyland and Gina Waggott along the Cotswold Way.
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Severn Way with Lucy Newcombe—Series 33
Thu 9 Jun 2016
Clare Balding catches up with Lucy Newcombe as she walks around the coast of Britain.
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Wayfarers Walk with Nigel Clifford—Series 33
Thu 2 Jun 2016
Clare Balding walks from Coombe Gibbet to Highclere with the CEO of OS, Nigel Clifford.
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The Essex Way—Series 33
Thu 26 May 2016
Clare Balding meets four women about to embark on walking the Essex Way in three days.
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Glyndwr's Way with Ursula Martin—Series 33
Thu 19 May 2016
Clare Balding walks Glyndwr's Way with Ursula Martin, who's walked over 3,000 round Wales.
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Isle of Dogs—Series 32
Thu 31 Mar 2016
An unusual urban walk to finish the series as Clare Balding rambles on the Isle of Dogs.
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Eyam, Derbyshire—Series 32
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Clare Balding walks to the 'plague village' of Eyam in Derbyshire in this week's programme
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Oxfordshire: In Memory of Catherine—Series 32
Thu 17 Mar 2016
Clare Balding joins a group of women who walk each year to remember their friend Catherine
Clare's top 30
Listen to a selection of favourite walks from Ramblings.