Ramblings
Clare Balding joins notable and interesting people for a walk through the countryside
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006xrr2
- Description
- Clare Balding joins notable and interesting people for a walk through the countryside
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-13 16:26
- last episode published
- 2025-02-13 15:30
- publication frequency
- 29.09 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Maxwelllove
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 282
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Technology Places & Travel Podcasting Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-13 | Clare meets a group of passionate walkers responsible for the redesign and relaunch of the Shropshire Way long distance footpath. Back in 2016 they got together, in collaboration with the local Council, to reroute it and improve the waymarking. And now... |
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| 2025-02-06 | Clare meets a passionate proponent of walking today on a hike around Capel y ffin and the Twmpa in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park. Andrew Green has just published a book called Voices on the Path, a History of Walking in Wales ... |
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| 2025-01-30 | Clare is in the Kingdom of Fife today, hiking from Clatto Reservoir to Pitscottie. It’s a beautiful stretch of the Fife Pilgrim Way, a long-distance footpath that runs 65 miles from either Culross or North Queensferry (there’s a choice of starting plac... |
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| 2025-01-23 | Clare Balding is celebrating a listener’s birthday today. Not something we’ve done before, but when we heard that Lynda Pettit was marking her 60th birthday by walking 60 different routes with 60 different people, and that the idea was partly inspired... |
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| 2025-01-16 | This is Clare’s 25th year of making Ramblings and one thing she has always enjoyed is walking all year round, in any weather. No matter how windy, how cold or how wet she’ll be out recording in the company of an equally weatherproof interviewee. Winte... |
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| 2025-01-09 | This is Clare's 25th year of walking and talking on Ramblings! To mark this, ahem, milestone her first hike of 2025 is with a group of students from the University of Nottingham who are all members of the RamSoc (The Rambling and Hiking Society) which... |
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| 2024-11-21 | Clare rambles around Epping Forest with the new Chief Scout, Dwayne Fields. He was appointed in September 2024, taking over from Bear Grylls, and has a wealth of adventure experience under his belt. Dwayne was born in Jamaica and came to the UK at t... |
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| 2024-11-14 | Clare joins a long established group as they embark on their 100th walk. Their route takes them from Leigh Woods, under the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and into the heart of Bristol.They call themselves The Old Lags, and every member was responsible dur... |
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| 2024-11-07 | Clare explores the banks of the River Itchen in Hampshire with Andrew Simkins who has just completed walking around the coast and borders of England. It’s taken him eight years, and it’s been an extraordinary journey in more ways than one. His beloved ... |
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| 2024-10-31 | Clare meets ‘Woman with Altitude’ Lise Wortley who recreates the adventures of overlooked and forgotten female explorers. As Lise takes Clare on a walk around her childhood village of Boxford in Suffolk, she tells Clare why she doesn’t just follow in ... |
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