Summary
Clare Balding revisits the English Civil War by walking round Edge hill in the company of a group of fathers who've been walking together for twenty years.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me. Claire Balding with another edition of ramblings. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to the Oxfordshire Village of Ratley. We have clear blue skies overhead. The sun is shining. It's the beginning of a summer heat wave and its perfect weather in which to walk. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm surrounded by three men in shorts and one in Wellington boots and one in a combination |
| 0:23.3 | of light trousers and boots. |
| 0:24.9 | Who's in charge? |
| 0:26.3 | A Barry's in charge, of course. |
| 0:28.5 | No, I'm not. |
| 0:29.4 | Am I? |
| 0:30.1 | I think the thing is that we don't really have anybody in charge because we never make any decisions. |
| 0:34.9 | We just sort of bumble along. |
| 0:36.3 | Well, if someone tells us which direction we're walking in, |
| 0:38.2 | I shall ask you, Tim, about how the group set up. |
| 0:40.5 | Because in this series of ramblings, |
| 0:42.1 | I've been walking with different groups. |
| 0:43.7 | They all have a story behind them, |
| 0:44.8 | and this group has been together for decades. |
| 0:47.9 | Which Ordinance Survey Map are we on? |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, now that's a very lovely personalised ordinance survey map who's that picture of on the front |
| 0:56.5 | that is a picture of my current dog when he was sweet he's a flat coat retriever and he's not |
| 1:00.6 | at all sweet any longer so it says on the front of it walkies time love from breckon water and sheep |
| 1:05.5 | poo preferred the important thing for anybody Those are my wife's words. |
| 1:12.8 | Are they? Lovely. |
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