WALKING

National Trust walking podcasts: There are two ways to listen to the National Trust’s series of walking podcasts. Each episode takes place in a different part of the UK, where ranger Kate Martin enthusiastically discusses local history and legends. Ideally, you’d want to be right there so that you can take in the surroundings together. But this is a warm and inviting listen, and you’d probably get just as much out of it as you trudge back from the school run.

Walking through Landscape: This BBC Radio Scotland series is now more than a decade old, but it remains the high watermark of what this sort of podcast can achieve. In every episode geologist Iain Stewart visits a different part of Scotland. The expectation again seems to be that you will track the same walk as Stewart as you listen, but just ignore that. This is an exploration of nature in all its quiet, awe-inspiring glory.

Walking is Fitness: If you struggle with getting fitness to stick this podcast is for you. The host, Dave Paul, invites you to join him every day for a ten-minute walk. This is a podcast of action as we hold each other accountable for maintaining our commitment to fitness.