Epsom Downs & Langley Vale Wood
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BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Listener Jo Forrest got in touch inviting Clare to walk with her and a group of fellow walkers with T1 Diabetes who discovered the beautiful lush landscapes around Epsom Downs Racecourse during their lockdown walks. Jo, Chiara, Nicole and Denise are keen to share awareness of Type 1 Diabetes and how they manage it in their every day lives. Their walk takes them beyond the racecourse to Langley Vale Wood scene of Lord Kitchener's inspection of the troops in 1915. Wooden sculptures of the soldiers haunt the landscape and even on a Summer's day the stillness and solemness make for a poignant reminder of the Fallen.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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| 0:40.1 | There's a freshening wind blowing across the Surrey Downs. |
| 0:43.7 | I've come to Epsom, just south of London, and actually standing right in the middle of the racecourse. |
| 0:49.0 | And this is the home of the Derby. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm at the one-mile start, and I know, because obviously this is my area of expertise, that the start of the Derby is just over the the one mile start and I know because obviously this is my area of expertise |
| 0:54.8 | that the start of the derby is just over the brow of the hill that I'm looking at to the south |
| 0:59.4 | and at the mile and half marker and sweeps uphill and then left and downhill around Tatham |
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