Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon,

and I make podcasts for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. But when I started

commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right

mixture of sounds could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to

give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole

new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories

that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC

sounds. This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Baldwin with another

edition of ramblings. The call of a cockerel behind a 10-foot-high stone wall is a rather odd start.

I've got my back to the village of Arendall, and behind this wall is Arndall Castle.

There's a sign in front of me that says all cricket traffic and an arrow pointing up.

And I've come to West Sussex, not far from Chichester, not far from Worthing.

To walk with a man who I last met in the middle of the night.

And Tristan Gully, I don't say that very often.

But we walked at night, didn't we?

We did, yes.

It was the first ever rambling's night walk, I think I'm right in saying, is that?

Yes.

Oh, the first and only, and it sounded so different, I remember.

Immediately, you know, with the cockle crowing that we're here in the morning and it's daytime,

we've got a slightly hazy day that it's meant to warm up, good conditions really, and the smell

of cut grass and the sign of it as well to our left. And now we've got a flint wall on our light in flint and brick

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