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

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Ramblings: The Trundle Sussex with Harriet Thomas

The Trundle Sussex with Harriet Thomas

BBC Radio 4 - Ramblings, The Trundle Sussex with Harriet Thomas

Clare joins listener Harriet Thomas on her favourite walk.

In the last of the current series, Clare is invited to join musician and songwriter Harriet Thomas on a walk in West Sussex.

The final listener's walk of the series is with Harriet Thomas who wrote to the programme to invite Clare to share her regular walk to The Trundle near Goodwood Racecourse in West Sussex. When lockdown struck and Harriet decamped from London to be near her elderly father she began walking regularly.  Sadly her father passed away in Spring 2020 and Harriet kept up the walking as a way of processing her grief.  She never returned to London and now immerses herself in the Sussex landscape on her daily rambles.  They meet and start out from near the village of West Dean and do a 6 mile circular walk that takes them up to The Trundle an ancient hillfort that provides a spectacular view down into Chichester and beyond to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

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