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Clare Balding joins notable and interesting people for a walk through the countryside

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Ramblings: Series 12: Episode 1: Suffolk - Aldeburgh

Suffolk - Aldeburgh

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Episode 1: Suffolk - Aldeburgh

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Clare Balding joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison in Suffolk.

Clare Balding joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison. They share the inspirational landscape of Benjamin Britten's Suffolk.

Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind, body and soul.

Clare joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison, who shares with her the inspirational landscape of Benjamin Britten's Suffolk - journeying from the rich sounds of the ocean crashing on the shingle beach at Aldeburgh to the watery reed beds of Snape Maltings, the site of the annual Aldeburgh Festival. 

Britten would often walk this land, consuming the sights and sounds and composing great works that were later notated at his piano back at The Red House, the Aldeburgh home that he shared with partner and collaborator Peter Pears. It was at this house that, as a student, Richard first met Britten, shortly before his death in 1976. 

Travelling along the historic Sailor's Path, infused with the sounds of Britten's Peter Grimes, Richard recalls this first meeting and discusses the relationship between music, mind and the landscape.

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