Inspirational walks around the UK countryside with Clare Balding. Clare is joined by guests on a walk that’s significant in their lives.
Episodes available:
Indefinitely 
Thu, 23 May 13
Duration:
25 mins
Clare Balding joins the hiking group of the Chilterns American Women's Club, as they walk to discover more about their new home area and to meet other ex-pat spouses.
Thu, 14 Mar 13
Duration:
25 mins
Clare Balding slips off her walking boots and dares to try a little bit of barefoot walking with Michael Wettike.
Thu, 7 Mar 13
Duration:
25 mins
Clare Balding goes litter picking in West Sussex with the author, David Sedaris.
Thu, 28 Feb 13
Duration:
25 mins
Actress and singer, Toyah Willcox, takes Clare Balding on a windy walk around Croome Landscape Park in Worcestershire.
Thu, 21 Feb 13
Duration:
24 mins
Clare Balding walks part of the Longdendale Trail in Derbyshire, in the company of walking partners Christine Valentine and Tracey Standring.
Sat, 16 Feb 13
Duration:
25 mins
Clare discovers walking can be the best form of stress relief in the Herefordshire countryside.
Sat, 9 Feb 13
Duration:
25 mins
Clare walks for self-improvement, joining a walking book group on Hampstead Heath.
Thu, 4 Oct 12
Duration:
25 mins
Clare Balding continues her series of wildlife walks with a visit to Dublin Bay, Ireland. Famous Irish naturalist and environmentalist Eanna Ni Lamhna and husband, John Harding, join Clare on a hunt for geese on a football pitch, curlew and dolphins along the Irish coast. On the walk from Sandymount Strand they discuss deadly seafood, James Joyce, Molly Malone and Ulysses, and catch some peculiarly named insects in an umbrella.
Thu, 27 Sep 12
Duration:
25 mins
Clare Balding joins 3 award winning taxidermists in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire for a walk to explore their unique view of wildlife. Or should that be "dead-life"? In their 40 years in the trade, Mike Gadd, Dave Astley and James Dickinson have mounted creatures from big game to small mammals, elephants to shrews. They have worked with artists like Damien Hirst, and helped repair extinct creatures like the Great Awk. But they won't do pets. They have even made mammoths and mermaids. As they stroll along the river Wharfe, they tell Clare Balding fascinating stories from their careers and paint a vivid picture of the state of taxidermy in the UK today.
Thu, 20 Sep 12
Duration:
25 mins
Clare Balding joins Nicola Hicks, an award winning British artist and sculptor, to discover wildlife in London. They discuss Nicola's unique artistic approach to wildlife and the contrast (and perils)of city versus country living. Along the route they encounter unusual horses, birds and deer - and try to stop their dogs repeating the infamous youtube "Fenton!" incident. Finally Clare reveals where you can find perhaps the best (and least known) view of the the whole city...
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