The Trundle Sussex with Harriet Thomas
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The final listener's walk of the series is with Harriet Thomas who wrote to the programme to invite Clare to share her regular walk to The Trundle near Goodwood Racecourse in West Sussex. When lockdown struck and Harriet decamped from London to be near her elderly father she began walking regularly. Sadly her father passed away in Spring 2020 and Harriet kept up the walking as a way of processing her grief. She never returned to London and now immerses herself in the Sussex landscape on her daily rambles. They meet and start out from near the village of West Dean and do a 6 mile circular walk that takes them up to The Trundle an ancient hillfort that provides a spectacular view down into Chichester and beyond to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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| 0:25.3 | I love the clothes. |
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| 0:27.1 | Yes, we're a comedy show |
| 0:28.0 | that takes history seriously |
| 0:29.3 | and then laughs at it. |
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| 0:35.6 | Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:40.5 | There are dark grey clouds overhead, but patches of blue sky and sunlight desperately trying to get through. |
| 0:47.6 | An autumnal feel to the day, I'm in West Sussex, and a cabbage white has just taken off from the grass on my right and taken to the fields beyond. |
| 0:57.0 | Walked past slows hanging deep and purple on their branches and elder berries as well. |
| 1:04.0 | It's foraging time, but I'm here to walk. |
| 1:07.0 | And Harriet Thomas got in touch with us this series is all about listeners walks and sharing |
| 1:12.3 | the walks that matter to you and explaining why so Harriet give me the background to the walk we're |
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