Listeners' Walks: Stoke-on-Trent
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding meets a group of five friends from Stoke on Trent who have been walking The Two Saints Way www.twosaintsway.org.uk , a route that's taken them from Chester to Lichfield. All retired or semi-retired professional women, they all have very personal reasons for taking this pilgrimage. They like to mark various stages of the walk with a song, taking it in turns to decide on the type of music required for the particular location. They are accompanied by Buddy, a Border Terrier cross Jack Russell who has been with them for every step of the way. They women call themselves The Fast Girls Walking Group on account of the brisk pace they like to keep, so Clare will not be dawdling as they explain to her their love of their home town and why they believe The Potteries are wrongly overlooked as a great walking area. The route can be found on OS Explorer 258 Stoke on Trent and Newcastle Under Lyme . The walk takes them from Stoke Minster to Lord Sutherland's Monument. Ful Producer: Lucy Lunt.
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| 0:06.0 | It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history. |
| 0:10.0 | Rock falls, avalanches. |
| 0:11.0 | Huge pieces of ice. All are big enough to kill you. |
| 0:14.0 | He just flew out into Devoid and he was gone. |
| 0:17.0 | How did it all go so wrong? |
| 0:19.0 | 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 cell on a vacation? |
| 0:27.4 | Extreme. |
| 0:28.3 | Peak Danger. |
| 0:29.3 | With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella. |
| 0:31.8 | Listen to the full series now. |
| 0:33.4 | First on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.2 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:39.7 | This is a BBC Radio 4 download. |
| 0:42.4 | You're listening to me. |
| 0:43.5 | Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings. |
| 0:47.6 | It's a breezy autumnal day. |
| 0:49.6 | The leaves are being whipped across this graveyard in the middle of Stoke-on-Trent, |
| 0:53.7 | and I've been allowed to join a group of five women |
| 0:56.3 | who've been walking together for the last three years, |
| 0:59.7 | and at the moment they are undertaking a new long-distance walk |
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