Mental Health Walking Group, Shrewsbury
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This series of Ramblings is themed 'Ramblings Revisited' as Clare catches up with people she walked with once before.
In 2005 Clare rambled with a group based at the Radbrook Day Service centre in Shrewsbury, for people with mental health difficulties. The group had been running for ten years at the time of the original programme, but in the intervening years the Day Service centre was closed and the walking group folded.
However one of the walkers in the original programme, clinical psychologist Penny Priest, has continued her interest in the mental health benefits of walking and introduces Clare to psychologist Guy Holmes who began a similar 'walk and talk' group in Shrewsbury which allowed original members to continue walking, and also brought new members on board.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
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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 BBC Radio 4 |
| 0:36.7 | download. You're listening to me, Claire Boulding, |
| 0:39.4 | with another edition of Ramblings. In this series, we have been doing a bit of a ramblings revisited, |
| 0:47.3 | and I've come today to Shrewsbury in Shropshire to meet up again with a group that I first |
| 0:51.4 | walked with in 2005, and they were based at the Radbrook |
| 0:56.5 | Day Service Centre. They were a walking group to help patients with mental health problems. |
| 1:01.8 | And Penny Priest was writing a dissertation about the mental benefits of walking. And I can see |
| 1:07.0 | the group waiting for me by the end of the footbridge that crosses the River 7 opposite the Guildhall in the car park and shows. |
| 1:13.9 | There's been lots of dogs here as well. |
| 1:16.0 | Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. We've got the right group. How are you? |
| 1:21.2 | Hello. Hello. Hello. Kelly. How are you? Are you right? Good to see you. Hello. Are we waiting for more people? |
| 1:29.2 | I think we're all here. |
| 1:30.4 | Okay, great. |
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