Walking with a Purpose: The Surrey Hills
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding joins Jenni Williams and her disabled three year old daughter, Eve, as they take their daily walk in the Surrey Hills. These walks are the highlight of their day as both enjoy being outside, admiring the views and watching the antics of their young and exuberant, golden retriever, Scout. Jenni talks candidly to Clare about how she and her husband, Steve have come to terms with Eve's condition and how they feel blessed to have such a happy and life affirming child. 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. |
| 0:08.8 | Are there I'm in? We're going for a walk? |
| 0:14.3 | Peas, phone, two bags, lead, emergency drugs and milk. We ready? |
| 0:20.3 | Right. |
| 0:24.6 | In this new series of ramblings, we are walking with a purpose, |
| 0:29.5 | or certainly for a purpose, and that's not necessarily a destination or a number of miles to be covered. It is people's routine. Why do they walk and why is it important to them? And today I've |
| 0:36.1 | come to the Surrey Hills, just on the outskirts of dorking. |
| 0:39.3 | We're walking past a primary school on the right. |
| 0:41.3 | The children are in the playground. |
| 0:42.3 | And I've come to meet Jenny Williams and her daughter Eve, |
| 0:45.3 | their dog scout as well. |
| 0:47.3 | And you may have heard Jenny's preparations |
| 0:50.3 | finishing with the words emergency drugs, |
| 0:53.3 | which are in a bag that's hanging on the back of the push chair. |
| 0:57.5 | In that push chair is Eve, who's her three-year-old daughter. |
| 1:01.0 | So Jenny, explain the emergency drugs. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, Eve, as part of her condition, Eve has seizures. |
| 1:10.0 | She doesn't happen very often, |
| 1:13.2 | but when they happen, they're quite complex and potentially extremely serious. |
| 1:18.6 | So in this bag, her emergency drugs that we give immediately after she has a seizure. |
| 1:25.2 | So she is never in her life more than seconds away. She knows you're |
| 1:30.2 | talking about her. She's banging her feet and she's twisting her head from side to side. To the extent |
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