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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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
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Trent, Dorset—Series 32
Thu 10 Mar 2016
Clare Balding joins a lively primary school walking club in the Dorset countryside.
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Samaritans—Series 32
Thu 3 Mar 2016
Clare Balding walks with a group of Samaritans' volunteers and their families.
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Loughrigg Fell - Simon Ingram—Series 32
Thu 25 Feb 2016
Clare Balding walks up Loughrigg Fellm near Grasmere, with the writer Simon Ingram.
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Walking with a Purpose: The Surrey Hills—Series 32
Thu 18 Feb 2016
Clare Balding walks in the Surrey Hills with Jenni Williams and her disabled daughter Eve.
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Artists' Ways - North Somerset—Series 31
Thu 22 Oct 2015
Clare Balding walks with Carolyn Savidge in north Somerset.
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Artists' Ways - Wiltshire—Series 31
Thu 15 Oct 2015
Clare Balding walks with Matthew Hopwood in Wiltshire.
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Nun Appleton House, North Yorkshire—Series 31
Thu 8 Oct 2015
Clare Balding walks in the footsteps of the poet Andrew Marvell.
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Artists' Ways - Falkirk—Series 31
Thu 1 Oct 2015
Clare Balding walks along the Forth & Clyde Canal to the spectacular 30-metre high Kelpies
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Windsor Great Park with Bill Bryson—Series 31
Thu 24 Sep 2015
Clare Balding walks in Windsor Great Park with writer and journalist Bill Bryson.
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Artists Ways: Louise Ann Wilson, Warnscale—Series 31
Thu 17 Sep 2015
Louise Ann Wilson discusses her walking guide and art book that reflect on childlessness.
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The Red Ramblers in Dorset—Series 30
Thu 25 Jun 2015
Clare Balding joins the Red Ramblers walking from Symondsbury in Dorset.
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Edge Hill—Series 30
Thu 18 Jun 2015
Clare Balding joins a group of fathers who have been walking together for 20 years.
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The Malvern Hills—Series 30
Thu 11 Jun 2015
Clare Balding becomes part of Team Zulu as she strides the Malvern Hills in a pith helmet.
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Lyke Wake Walk—Series 30
Thu 4 Jun 2015
Clare Balding undertakes a section of the Lyke Wake Walk on the North York Moors.
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Old Birds, Pegsdon Hills—Series 30
Thu 28 May 2015
Clare walks in the Pegsdon Hills with a group of female birders.
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Royal Greenwich Park—Series 30
Thu 21 May 2015
Clare Balding walks with a group of parents who each have children with special needs.
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Derbyshire - Family Walk—Series 29
Thu 26 Mar 2015
Clare Balding walks with a group of families in Derbyshire.
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Nordic Walking in Bramcote Park, Nottingham—Series 29
Thu 19 Mar 2015
Clare Balding joins a group of Nordic walkers in Bramcote Park, Nottingham.
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Hertfordshire - Bell-Ringers—Series 29
Thu 12 Mar 2015
Clare Balding walks with a group who share a passion for bell-ringing.
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Cardiac Walkers—Series 29
Thu 5 Mar 2015
Clare Balding walks with a group of retired medics who have all suffered a 'cardiac event'
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Philip Marsden, Truro, Cornwall—Series 29
Thu 26 Feb 2015
Clare Balding walks with writer Philip Marsden from his home on the River Fal in Cornwall.
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Bonding Walks: Stiperstones, Shropshire—Series 29
Thu 19 Feb 2015
Clare Balding walks to the top of the Stiperstones in Shropshire with a men's group.
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The Dales Way, Part Six—Series 28
Thu 23 Oct 2014
Clare walks the final leg of her journey with Colin Spearman, designer of the route.
Clare's top 30
Listen to a selection of favourite walks from Ramblings.