RAMBLINGS

BBC RADIO 4, WEEKLY FROM 12 FEBRUARY FOR SEVEN WEEKS, 3PM ON THURSDAYS

Broadcaster Anneka Rice is a selfconfessed obsessive rambler who feels out of sorts if she doesn’t walk every day. In the first episode of a new series of

Ramblings, Anneka leads Clare Balding around her local Thames-side route.

Other walkers sharing their favourite hikes with Clare include anthropologist and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota, who explains how to spy hidden archaeological secrets in the landscape. Campaigner Debbie North uses an all-terrain wheelchair to explore the wildness of her beloved Yorkshire Dales. Rick Minter, whose podcast Big Cat Conversations features stories of big cat encounters, walks in Gloucestershire not far from his own (possible) black panther sighting. In Dorset, sculptor Simon Gudgeon explains how nature inspires his work, and in Berkshire, film producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin reveals the inspiration behind a new project: adventurer Lady Hester Stanhope.