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

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Ramblings: Series 24

Clare Balding

George Monbiot

Karen Gregor

Ramblings: Series 24: Episode 3: George Monbiot in search of the wild

George Monbiot in search of the wild

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Episode 3: George Monbiot in search of the wild

Series 24

BBC Radio 4 - Ramblings, Series 24, George Monbiot in search of the wild

Clare Balding walks in search of the wild with environmentalist George Monbiot.

Clare Balding goes for a wild and windy walk, near Machynlleth, with the environmentalist and author George Monbiot.

Clare Balding goes rambling, near Machynlleth, with the writer and environmentalist, George Monbiot. The theme of this series of Ramblings is 'In Search Of.' and, together, George and Clare are walking in search of wildness.

George's new book, 'Feral', is partly a personal story about his attempt to stave off the monochrome nature of modern-day life: "I could not continue just sitting and writing, looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to stay fit, watching the seasons cycling past without ever quite belonging to them. I was, I believed, ecologically bored".

In this walk, George explains how he has attempted to 'rewild' his own life and describes what he believes needs to be done in order to reintroduce true wildness to our countryside through the large-scale restoration of ecosystems. He says "researching it felt like stepping through the back of the wardrobe".

Using OS Explorer OL23 - Cadair Idris and Llyn Tegid - George takes Clare to his favourite place in mid-Wales, a rare stand of ancient native woodland, which stirs him to his very soul.

Producer: Karen Gregor.

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