A Recast of ‘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 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.

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Recastable Episodes (301)

1.	London - Hampstead Heath	Sept. 18, 2010
2.	Wiltshire - Swindon	Sept. 25, 2010
3.	Gloucestershire - Forest of Dean	Oct. 2, 2010
4.	Derbyshire - Wardlow	Oct. 9, 2010
5.	Scotland - Pentland Hills	Oct. 16, 2010
6.	Scotland - Glasgow Necropolis	Oct. 23, 2010
7.	Somerset - Bath Skyline	Feb. 5, 2011
8.	Ireland - Belfast Hills	Feb. 12, 2011
9.	Lancaster - Slyne	Feb. 19, 2011
10.	Wales - Garth	Feb. 26, 2011
11.	Manchester - Marsden	March 5, 2011
12.	Birmingham - Lickey Hills	March 12, 2011
13.	Heptonstall - Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath	May 21, 2011
14.	Hereford - Bruce Chatwin	May 28, 2011
15.	Malcolm Saville - Shropshire	June 4, 2011
16.	Darwin - Quantock Hills	June 11, 2011
17.	Daphne Du Maurier - Fowey	June 18, 2011
18.	Alderley Edge - Alan Garner	June 25, 2011
19.	John Jones - Walking & Gigging	Sept. 20, 2011
20.	The Roaches and Lud's Church	Sept. 24, 2011
21.	Dales Way	Oct. 1, 2011
22.	Discovering Kent from Chilham to Wye	Oct. 8, 2011
23.	Lincolnshire - The Wolds	Oct. 15, 2011
24.	Devon - Hope Cove to Salcombe	Oct. 22, 2011
25.	Kent - Octavia Hill Centenary Trail	Feb. 9, 2012
26.	Northern Ireland - The Wee Binnians	Feb. 16, 2012
27.	Storytelling in Cornwall	Feb. 23, 2012
28.	Kinder Scout	March 1, 2012
29.	Brecon Beacons - Art in the Park	March 8, 2012
30.	Sir Andrew Motion	March 15, 2012
31.	Flamborough Head to Bridlington	May 31, 2012
32.	Dartmoor	May 31, 2012
33.	Alnmouth, Northumberland	June 7, 2012
34.	Larkhall, South Lanarkshire	June 14, 2012
35.	Pen Farthing on Dartmoor	June 21, 2012
36.	Whitley Bay with Barry Stone	June 28, 2012
37.	Richmond Park, London, with Artist Nicola Hicks	Sept. 20, 2012
38.	Taxidermists in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire	Sept. 27, 2012
39.	The Wicklow Mountains with Eanna Ni Lamhna	Oct. 4, 2012
40.	Dublin Bay with Eanna Ni Lamhna	Oct. 4, 2012
41.	Samuel West at Rainham Marshes in Essex	Oct. 11, 2012
42.	Simon Evans of the Wye and Usk Foundation	Oct. 18, 2012
43.	Steve Backshall	Oct. 25, 2012
44.	The Walking Book Group	Feb. 9, 2013
45.	Walking for Spiritual Renewal	Feb. 16, 2013
46.	Walking with friends	Feb. 21, 2013
47.	Toyah Willcox	Feb. 28, 2013
48.	David Sedaris	March 7, 2013
49.	Michael Weltike - Barefoot Walker	March 14, 2013
50.	Chilterns American Women's Club hiking group	May 23, 2013
51.	In Search of Love	May 30, 2013
52.	George Monbiot in search of the wild	June 6, 2013
53.	In Search of the Old Ways	June 13, 2013
54.	West Highland Way from Balmaha	June 20, 2013
55.	Tara Bariana recalls his long walk home to India	June 27, 2013
56.	The Tuesday Walkers of North Devon	Sept. 19, 2013
57.	Werca's Folk, Warkworth in Northumberland	Oct. 2, 2013
58.	Durham with Maggie and Keith Bell	Oct. 3, 2013
59.	Newbiggin on Lune to Kirkby Stephen	Oct. 10, 2013
60.	The Same Walk 365 Times	Oct. 17, 2013
61.	John McCarthy walks with volunteer rangers on the South Downs	Oct. 24, 2013
62.	Tom Isaacs, Chorley Wood	Feb. 13, 2014
63.	Rachael Kiddey, Avon Estuary	Feb. 20, 2014
64.	Hopetoun with the Monday Walkers	Feb. 27, 2014
65.	Mental Health Walking Group, Shrewsbury	March 6, 2014
66.	Tennyson Down, Isle of Wight	March 13, 2014
67.	Over the Hill walkers, Windsor Great Park	March 20, 2014
68.	Thundersley, Essex	May 22, 2014
69.	Hay-on-Wye	May 29, 2014
70.	The Doward	June 5, 2014
71.	Fingle Bridge to Castle Drogo	June 12, 2014
72.	Arundel, West Sussex	June 19, 2014
73.	The Diamond Ramblers, Otterton	June 26, 2014
74.	The Dales Way, Part One	Sept. 18, 2014
75.	The Dales Way, Part Two	Sept. 25, 2014
76.	The Dales Way, Part Three	Oct. 2, 2014
77.	The Dales Way, Part Four	Oct. 9, 2014
78.	The Dales Way, Part Five	Oct. 16, 2014
79.	The Dales Way, Part Six	Oct. 23, 2014
80.	Bonding Walks: Stiperstones, Shropshire	Feb. 19, 2015
81.	Cardiac Walkers	March 5, 2015
82.	Philip Marsden, Truro, Cornwall	March 9, 2015
83.	Hertfordshire - Bell-Ringers	March 12, 2015
84.	Nordic Walking in Bramcote Park, Nottingham	March 19, 2015
85.	Derbyshire - Family Walk	March 26, 2015
86.	Royal Greenwich Park	May 21, 2015
87.	Old Birds, Pegsdon Hills	May 28, 2015
88.	Lyke Wake Walk	June 4, 2015
89.	The Malvern Hills	June 11, 2015
90.	The Red Ramblers in Dorset	June 30, 2015
91.	Edge Hill	June 30, 2015
92.	Artists Ways: Louise Ann Wilson, Warnscale	Sept. 17, 2015
93.	Windsor Great Park with Bill Bryson	Sept. 22, 2015
94.	Artists' Ways - Falkirk	Oct. 1, 2015
95.	Nun Appleton House, North Yorkshire	Oct. 14, 2015
96.	Artists' Ways - Wiltshire	Oct. 16, 2015
97.	Artists' Ways - North Somerset	Oct. 22, 2015
98.	Walking with a Purpose: The Surrey Hills	Feb. 18, 2016
99.	Loughrigg Fell - Simon Ingram	Feb. 25, 2016
100.	Samaritans	March 3, 2016
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