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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Clare Balding visits Rugby School, which can claim to be the birth place of the modern Olympic games. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Clare Balding charts how the British shaped sport and vice versa. Unlike the French, was it our socially bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution? Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing for the 19th-century alpha male. With no gloves or armour, pugilism was pure, painful and deeply patriotic. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing. Clare Balding continues her exploration sport in Britain. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Available for over a year
Clare Balding visits Rugby School to learn why the role sport played turned its pupils into men fit to run the empire. Show more
An exploration of the hymn by Henry Francis Lyte, based on Psalm 103, sung at national events and times of sadness. From February 2010. Show more
An exploration of personal and professional impact of the concerto written in 1844. With violinist Daniel Hope. From 2010. Show more
An exploration of what Bach’s harpsichord piece from the 1740s Goldberg Variations means to different people now. From 2010. Show more
Clare Balding walks part of the Pilgrims Way with Canon Clare Edwards, from Canterbury Cathedral, and Jackie McAll, who is about do the 130-mile route as a pilgrimage of gratitude. Show more
Clare Balding joins the hiking group of the Chilterns American Women's Club, as they walk to discover more about their new home area and to meet other ex-pat spouses. Show more
Clare Balding launches a new series by joining the Tuesday Walkers of North Devon, to discover the vital role the group plays in the lives of its members, who are all now retired. Show more
Clare Balding walks along the banks of the river Chess with Tom Isaacs, who has Parkinson's disease, and his wife Lyndsey. Show more
Clare Balding gets serious in this new series, by discovering how to be a more adventurous walker. Today she joins Ursula Martin who walked over three thousand miles around Wales. Show more
Clare Balding goes on a training walk with four women about to embark on completing the 82-mile Essex Way in just three days while raising money for a local charity. Show more
Clare Balding and the new head of Ordnance Survey, Nigel Clifford, walk along Wayfarers Walk from Coombe Gibbet to Highclere on the Berkshire/Hampshire border while talking maps. Show more
Clare Balding meets Phoebe Smith, an expert in planning long walks and bagging bothies.
Clare Balding meets novelist and screewriter David Nicholls in Thursley, Surrey, to walk to The Devil's Punchbowl. They talk about how walking helped him write One Day. Show more
Clare Balding joins a couple who have discovered walking is a wonderful way to help their three adopted children, all of whom have experienced emotional difficulties. Show more
Clare Balding marks the 80th anniversary of the Jarrow Crusade, walking from Ripon to Ripley, when 200 men marched to London led by one woman, Ellen Wilkinson MP. Show more
Clare Balding travels to Ireland to retrace the steps of those who walked from Louisburg to Delphi in 1849 at the height of the potato famine in the hope of receiving aid. Show more
