Severn Way with Lucy Newcombe

Ramblings

BBC

Science, Nature, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare Balding continues this series of epic walks by meeting up with a retired RAF officer, Lucy Newcombe, who started walking round the coast of Britain last summer. By the time her journey ends she expects to have covered over six thousand miles. Lucy and Clare discuss the kindness of strangers, their love of the British countryside, home-made cake and the best way to deal with dogs. They walk for six miles along the Severn Way and are joined by Lucy's sister in law, Laura, who, as she lives locally, has been operating as landlady, laundress and taxi driver for the past two weeks. She tells Clare about the changes this journey has made to Lucy, once a loner, now discovering that she likes the company of her fellow man. Lucy however insists she's not walking alone to discover herself, find her inner voice or to make plans for a new career. Lucy walks for the joy of it and the chance to see more of the country she loves. 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.
0:09.1	This series of Ramblings is all about epic walks. I've already met Ursula, who walked the whole of Wales, thousands of miles around Wales, four women who were walking the Essex Way in three days.
0:19.8	And last week I was with the CEO of the Ordnance Survey.
0:23.2	And Lucy Newcomb, who's alongside me, has just admitted that you love maps, don't you?
0:28.0	I do like maps, yes.
0:30.0	So when did you look at the map of Great Britain and think, wow, I'd like to walk the whole of the coastline of this United Kingdom.
0:38.7	It was a building idea as I was coming up to finishing work.
0:43.3	It's too easy just to come up with ideas.
0:45.8	Sometimes crazy ideas and then never do them, so I just told a few people.
0:50.7	And then that bullied me into doing it really.
0:53.5	I think you were on to something there. As
0:55.0	soon as one puts into words the thing that you're dreaming of, you sort of have to make it
1:00.7	reality. You feel that you've, you know, you've written some sort of contract. Yes. So it was
1:05.6	really to see the country. That was my motivation. Got sick of hearing people say how much better it was everywhere else.
1:12.9	And I really like this country.
1:14.8	And then I thought, well, quite like to see a bit more of the country.
1:18.5	And walking just became the means to do it really.
1:22.6	So I'm not hung up about walking every step.
1:25.8	I've got a few buses, trains.
1:28.8	I've even hired a car for one section.
1:32.4	But, yeah, I like to walk it because it's a really good way of seeing everything
1:39.2	and meeting people and seeing the places in a whole different way.
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