Oxfordshire: In Memory of Catherine
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding joins a group of women in Oxfordshire, who meet every year to remember their friend Catherine, who died of breast cancer at forty-five. Some in the group knew each other before Catherine's death; others have met, and become good friends since. There are her friends from her school days, her book club and from her career as a nurse. Catherine would have been fifty this year and her daughter Sarah now sixteen explains how she has derived comfort from helping to raise money for research into the disease and by getting together with her mother's friends to share memories while walking together. Producer Lucy Lunt.
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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. |
| 0:10.6 | If it sounds like I've gate crashed a coffee morning or come to a tea party, it's because to be |
| 0:19.3 | honest I have, a massive group of friends are gathered at the White Horse Pub in Woolston. |
| 0:24.9 | We're just on the edge of Berkshire and Wiltshire between Farringdon and Shrivenham, |
| 0:29.0 | not far from the valley of the racehorse from Lamborn, an area I know very, very well. |
| 0:33.9 | And this is a group of friends who gather once a year to remember somebody who touched all of their lives |
| 0:40.6 | she was called Catherine Davis |
| 0:42.0 | and today would have been her 50th birthday |
| 0:45.1 | So I think everyone's now got their boots on |
| 0:51.5 | jackets, scarves, hats |
| 0:53.3 | It's quite a chilly winter's day. |
| 0:56.3 | Louise, how many people have we got? |
| 0:58.3 | I think there's 24 of us here. |
| 1:00.0 | And all women? |
| 1:01.3 | All women. |
| 1:02.7 | No, Catherine's husband, is over there, but he's disappeared. |
| 1:04.9 | He's not coming for the walk with us. |
| 1:07.0 | And all of them knew Catherine at different stages of her life? |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah, there's some of us who knew her from school. |
| 1:12.8 | There's some from university, some NCT friends, local friends, book clubs. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.3 | Lots of nursing friends too. |
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