Rachael Kiddey, Avon Estuary
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This series is themed 'Ramblings Revisited' as Clare Balding walks again with some of her favourite and most memorable guests.
In March of 2006 Clare Balding went rambling with Rosie Barrett and her two children, Rachael and Rob. They took her on their local walk around the Avon Estuary in south Devon. It had always been part of their lives, as a route for venting teenage tantrums or simply as a ramble to the pub, but after Rosie's other son, Hugh, died of cancer at the age of 19 the walk took on a deeper significance. The family, and a hundred others, planted trees in Hugh's memory on a nearby hillside and a new section of the walk was created through dense woodland.
For this programme Clare revisits Rachael and Rosie and follows the same route. Rob can't make it this time, but in his place is Jonno, Rosie's husband. It's now 11 years since Hugh died and of course the trees have grown; meanwhile Rachael now works in academia where her speciality is - appropriately enough - memory, landscape and therapeutic heritage.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
Transcript
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| 0:38.0 | sounds. This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Baldwin, with another |
| 0:44.4 | edition of Ramblings. In this series of Ramblings, we're revisiting some of the people and the places |
| 0:52.4 | that have stayed most really in my memory. |
| 0:55.0 | And this was a walk we did in 2006 that has really remained in my mind because of some of the |
| 1:03.3 | things that were said, but also because of the situation. |
| 1:06.1 | And the situation was that Hugh, who was just 19, had died from a very rare and very aggressive form of cancer. |
| 1:13.6 | Rosie, is this the same walk as we did before? |
| 1:15.6 | It is, but in the other direction. |
| 1:17.2 | Okay. |
| 1:17.4 | And slightly shorter. |
| 1:18.9 | Just cutting off a bit around the estuary, the bit where you fell in. |
| 1:23.6 | Great. |
| 1:23.9 | I'm quite grateful. |
| 1:25.9 | For the second time. |
| 1:26.9 | Thanks. |
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