Podcast Episodes
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In the third programme in a series of walks suggested by listeners, Clare Balding joins Colin Speakman, creator of the Dales Way and campaigner for w…
15 years ago
The Roaches and Lud's Church
In the second of a series of walks suggested by listeners to Ramblings, Clare Balding explores the area around the gritstone escarpment of The Roache…
15 years ago
John Jones - Walking & Gigging
Clare Balding returns with a new series of walks based on suggestions from listeners to the programme. The series begins as Clare joins John Jones, l…
15 years, 1 month ago
Alderley Edge - Alan Garner
Alan Garner spent his early childhood in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England, and he remains associated with the area. Many of his works, including The …
15 years, 3 months ago
Daphne Du Maurier - Fowey
Daphne Du Maurier lived and worked in Cornwall and the area surrounding Fowey features in many of her novels. Today the town is home to the annual Da…
15 years, 4 months ago
Darwin - Quantock Hills
Inspired by Richard Dawkins book 'The Ancestor's tale: a pilgrimage to the dawn of life' the 'Ancestor's Trail' is intended as a celebration of evolu…
15 years, 4 months ago
Malcolm Saville - Shropshire
Clare Balding joins walkers and members of the Malcolm Saville society in the Shropshire Hills where the author of children's fiction based his Lone …
15 years, 4 months ago
Hereford - Bruce Chatwin
Clare Balding walks on the Black Hill near to Hereford in the footsteps of novelist Bruce Chatwin who explored the border between Wales and England f…
15 years, 4 months ago
Heptonstall - Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
Clare Balding is back with a new series of walks with a literary theme, beginning in Heptonstall, the childhood home of poet Ted Hughes, and the buri…
15 years, 5 months ago
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 …
15 years, 7 months ago