The popular BBC Radio 4 weekly series, Ramblings, is running a six-part series featuring the Dales Way and these are on IPlayer Radio to listen again and as podcasts playable on most PCs, tablets and smartphones to download here.

In episode 4, Clare Balding reaches one of the most beautiful stretches of the Dales Way in Langstrothdale, setting out from Buckden to Beckermonds, in the company of the Chairman of the Long Distance Walkers Association, John Sparshatt and his Californian-born friend, Randal Metzger, Chairman of Walkers are Welcome, Otley.