Tom Isaacs, Chorley Wood
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this new series Clare Balding revisits some of her favourite and most memorable guests. Eleven years ago she joined Tom Isaacs in West Wales as he walked the entire coastline of Britain in an attempt to raise money and awareness for research into a cure for Parkinson's disease. Tom had been diagnosed at the exceptionally young age of twenty-seven but has always been determined not to let his condition get in the way of him leading a fulfilling and productive life. Clare now walks with Tom and his wife Lyndsey, along the river Chess, close to their home just outside London. Producer Lucy Lunt.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, |
| 0:06.3 | and I make podcasts for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. But when I started |
| 0:12.0 | commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right |
| 0:17.8 | mixture of sounds could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to |
| 0:25.2 | give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole |
| 0:29.9 | new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories |
| 0:34.1 | that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC |
| 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. I first started doing ramblings in 1999, which means it's been 15 years, |
| 0:52.9 | and to celebrate that landmark, we thought for this series we would revisit places that we've really enjoyed walking, |
| 0:59.8 | or indeed meet up again with people who have stayed in our minds. |
| 1:04.7 | So today I've come to the outskirts of London to Chorleywood. |
| 1:09.2 | And you can hear the M25 buzzing in the background but I think that'll |
| 1:12.1 | lessen as we get further on with our walk and I'm reuniting with a guy called Tom Isaacs who I |
| 1:20.1 | first met 11 years ago he was walking the whole of the coastline of Britain and he was doing it |
| 1:25.3 | to raise money for research into Parkinson's disease |
| 1:28.9 | and this is what he said about the walk then I'm walking the coastline of Britain raising funds for |
| 1:35.2 | Parkinson's disease research and trying to spread awareness of the fact that young people can get |
| 1:39.8 | Parkinson's as well I'm only 34 and I've had Parkinson's for seven years, so I'm keen to spread |
| 1:45.4 | awareness of the fact that it's not just an old person's disease. And also the fact that we're |
| 1:49.9 | very close to a cure, that scientists are saying that within five years, there may well be a cure |
| 1:54.1 | for Parkinson's, and there's genuine hope for people like me. |
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