Summary
Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) in this new series of Ramblings.
Prog 5: Dartmoor with Alex Lyons who is a search and rescue dog handler.
Alex Lyons is a dog handler with the Tavistock-Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team. He and several members of his team - and their dogs - take Clare for a wild, wet and windy walk on Dartmoor. Clare sees how the rescue dogs work, and asks why anyone would want to spend their leisure time doing a voluntary job which is exhausting and occasionally upsetting. The answer? A sense of fulfilment, the opportunity to spend time in beautiful and remote countryside, and - of course - the joy of working with highly trained and intelligent dogs (who make their presence felt, and heard, throughout the programme).
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? |
| 0:22.3 | Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation? |
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| 0:33.2 | First on BBC Sounds. This is the Coast and Country podcast from the BBC. |
| 0:38.7 | You can find the terms and conditions on our website at BBC.com.ukuk forward slash radio four. |
| 0:45.9 | Today you can hear ramblings with Claire Balding. |
| 0:50.6 | It's a bleak day, really, really grim. |
| 0:57.8 | Our vision is barely, well, probably 50, 60 yards in front and that seems to be contracting with every step. |
| 1:00.5 | There's rain driving in from the left. |
| 1:03.5 | And we are in the middle of Dartmoor. |
| 1:05.2 | Now, Dartmoor is an area of 365 square miles, |
| 1:08.5 | all of it in Devon, |
| 1:10.1 | and I reckon we ain't going to see much of it today. |
| 1:13.1 | But it doesn't matter because this weather is perfect for the team that I'm walking with today |
| 1:18.1 | because there's a group of five of us in total, and we've also got four dogs with us, |
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