Summary
In today's programme Clare Balding walks with a group of medics who have all suffered - as they put it - a 'cardiac event'. With good humour and no real restraint, they gather as often as possible to explore new and familiar routes for friendship and health. The group is made up of GPs, hospital doctors, surgeons and a psychiatrist, and their cardiac experiences range from living with angina to surviving a severe heart-attack. They joke about whose turn it is to carry the defibrillator, but the truth is, they don't let their medical conditions get in the way of a good ramble.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 11 climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2. |
| 0:06.4 | It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history. |
| 0:09.9 | Rock falls, avalanches. |
| 0:11.6 | Huge pieces of ice. |
| 0:12.9 | All are big enough to kill you. |
| 0:14.3 | He just flew out into Devoid, and he was gone. |
| 0:17.3 | How did it all go so wrong? |
| 0:19.2 | And is it really worth risking death to feel alive? Why would |
| 0:23.1 | somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation? Extreme, peak danger. With me, |
| 0:29.9 | Natalia Melman Petrazella. Listen to the full series now, first on BBC Sounds. This is a BBC Radio |
| 0:36.4 | for download. |
| 0:38.3 | You're listening to me. |
| 0:40.9 | Claire Balding, with another edition of ramblings. |
| 0:43.7 | Right, where are we headed then? |
| 0:46.9 | We're starting at Bolham Lake Country Park. |
| 0:56.6 | And the lake was first made in 1817 by Lord Dicies of the Follum Hall just up the road there. |
| 1:02.9 | And it was in 1972 that it was bought by in the Thumbland County Council. |
| 1:06.4 | So it's now managed by them as a country park. |
| 1:07.8 | And it's very popular. |
| 1:09.2 | And you pronounce it, Bolum? |
| 1:11.4 | Bolam. Bolam Lake. |
| 1:13.2 | Bolam Lake Country Parks. |
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