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Ramblings
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…
Episodes
- Ramblings
Birmingham - Lickey Hills
In the last programme of the series, Stuart Maconie walks the Lickey Hills overlooking Birmingham with a group of first time walkers, from the inner city.
- Ramblings
Manchester - Marsden
Stuart Maconie takes in the Manchester skyline with poet Simon Armitage on his home turf.
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Wales - Garth
Continuing his series of short walks for winter days that take in city skylines, Stuart Maconie walks the Garth outside of Cardiff with a group who call…
- Ramblings
Lancaster - Slyne
Broadcaster, journalist and keen walker Stuart Maconie continues this series of Ramblings, finding walks that are perfect for short winter days and which offer…
- Ramblings
Ireland - Belfast Hills
Journalist and keen walker Stuart Maconie is presenting this series of Ramblings and is setting out to find accessible walks that offer great city views…
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Somerset - Bath Skyline
Journalist and passionate hiker, Stuart Maconie hosts this series of Ramblings on Radio 4, embarking on the first of six city skyline walks, perfect for first…
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Scotland - Glasgow Necropolis
Clare Balding walks through the magnificent Glasgow Necropolis, a green oasis in the heart of the city.
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Scotland - Pentland Hills
Clare Balding walks with the Friends of the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, a group who share a love of what the writer Robert Louis Stevenson referred to as…
- Ramblings
Derbyshire - Wardlow
Clare Balding walks with a group of women who have produced their own book of walks in the Peak District called 'Women's Ways' that celebrates their…
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Gloucestershire - Forest of Dean
Clare Balding is in the Forest of Dean with a group who've been walking through the county of Gloucestershire for two months with donkeys. As part of the…
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Wiltshire - Swindon
Clare Balding walks through the Wiltshire countryside with a Swindon based group of people with early onset dementia. The support they give one another on…
- Ramblings
London - Hampstead Heath
Clare Balding takes a walk on Hampstead Heath with a group of inner city Londoners who are being encouraged to discover the green places of their city, often…