Summary
Clare joins a lively primary school walking club as they ramble through the Dorset countryside. Pupils, teachers, local farmers and parents join the group which has been helping to draw the local community together for twelve years. Starting at a farm near the school, Trent Young's C of E near Sherborne, they walk on footpaths and over private farmland - made accessible by the farmers who help lead the walk - learning about the countryside as they go.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a BBC Radio 4 download. |
| 0:02.5 | You're listening to me. |
| 0:03.6 | Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings. |
| 0:08.0 | I've come to the village of Trent to a place called Gore Farm, |
| 0:11.9 | where they've established a walking group for the local school children. |
| 0:15.9 | And I'm reliably informed that inside this cow shed, |
| 0:19.8 | I will find a group of eager young walkers. |
| 0:23.9 | Hello, all right. All together. Good morning, Miss Boulding. |
| 0:29.1 | Good morning, Miss Boulding. |
| 0:32.7 | I've never had that before in my life. That's a very good start. Hello. |
| 0:37.8 | Well, thank you very much for letting us join you today. |
| 0:40.1 | You know what we're doing? Do you know what we're doing? |
| 0:42.6 | Yes, and what else are we doing? When we're walking, what are we doing? |
| 0:45.6 | What's this thing? Do you know what this is? |
| 0:48.1 | No. This big furry thing here is a microphone. |
| 0:51.4 | And we're going to record the program for Radio 4. |
| 0:55.0 | We're going to do one of our favourite walks that is up round Trent Barrow, which is one of our favourite places to go and walk. |
| 1:02.0 | And then we're going to head back. We're actually going to walk back right the way back to school then. |
| 1:07.0 | So we won't come back here again. We'll actually go back past the Millennium Pond and we'll walk back to the school itself so I think it's time for us to maybe make a start |
| 1:16.8 | what do you think there are 25 children here um what what ages are you I'm very bad at ages |
| 1:25.5 | how old are you five so and you're six ages. How old are you? Five. Five. |
| 1:30.6 | And you're six. So we got... And who do you think the oldest one is? |
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