Summary
Clare Balding joins Team Zulu, a group of walkers, led by Tarquin Shaw- Young, who prepare for long distance charity walks by training on the majestic Malvern hills. Tarquin became obsessed by the 1964 epic war film, depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift, as a small child and now uses Zulu as the motif for bringing friends and family together to embark, each year, on completing the Worcestershire Way.
As Clare marches across the hills with the group she talks to Tarquin's wife, Kelly about what it means to be married to a man who turned up at their wedding in a pith helmet.
Producer Lucy Lunt.
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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 |
| 0:36.4 | for download. |
| 0:38.3 | You're listening to me. |
| 0:40.9 | Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings. |
| 0:48.8 | I don't know whether this is a good or a bad time to confess that I don't think I've seen the film Zulu. |
| 0:56.5 | I can see now the look of disappointment on Tarquin's face and indeed the whole team because I have joined Team Zulu. |
| 1:01.0 | They are all wearing baseball caps that say emblazoned in gold across them Zulu. |
| 1:08.1 | They have T-shirts on with photographs of themselves, I think, in the uniform associated with that film. |
| 1:14.5 | The Michael Kane, you know, imagine Michael Kane with the Pith helmet and the big, you know, what's it called on the front? |
| 1:15.3 | The Shako plate. |
| 1:16.3 | What's it called? |
| 1:17.5 | Shaco, Shaco plate. |
| 1:18.4 | Shaco plate? |
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