Gloucestershire - Forest of Dean
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2010
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding is in the Forest of Dean with a group who've been walking through the county of Gloucestershire for two months with donkeys. As part of the Cultural Olympiad Sarah Blowers, along with various artists, children and people who've just tagged along, set off to discover the beauty of the countryside at a slow pace, setting camp at the end of each day's walk. Everyone Clare meets as she joins them at Soudley to walk through the forest is enthusiastic about the gentle pace of life they're experiencing walking with the donkeys carrying their provisions.
Producer: Maggie Ayre.
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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 podcast |
| 0:36.6 | download from the BBC. |
| 0:38.4 | It's Ramblings on Radio 4 with me, Claire Boulding. |
| 0:43.4 | Today on Ramblings, I am joining a large group that is both human and animal. |
| 0:49.9 | We've got four donkeys with us, and I've never walked with donkeys before. |
| 0:52.7 | We've got Chester and Merlin and Archie. |
| 0:55.5 | And what's the fourth one called? |
| 0:57.2 | Teddy. |
| 0:58.9 | And Merlin pulls the cart. Is that right, Piers? |
| 1:02.1 | No, the magic Merlin, the magician, he leads the way. |
| 1:05.1 | Okay. |
| 1:05.7 | And Archie follows behind. |
| 1:08.0 | Just give me a vague idea of what this is about, |
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