Tales From the Riverbank

Clare Balding's river adventure begins on the longest river in the country, the magnificent Severn, which flows from a brook in the Welsh Cambrian mountains, along a course of 220 miles, all the way to Bristol and the shores of the Severn Estuary.

Clare visits Agatha Christie's holiday home, a charming Estate that inspired its very own murder mystery. She jumps aboard a heritage steam train for a spot of cream tea with a riverside view, and then moves on to Dartmoor.

Clare Balding heads to the famous waterways of the River Thames and discovers the 'dreaming spires' of Oxford, the landscapes that inspired Kenneth Graham's `The Wind in the Willows', and the regal splendour of the Cliveden Estate and Windsor Castle.

Clare heads to one of her favourite stretches of water, the River Wharfe. Clare's journey takes her past chocolate box villages, through the Bolton Abbey Estate to Harewood House, before ending on the banks of the river in Wetherby.

Clare Balding's trip along the beautiful River Wye, from mid Wales to the Severn Estuary, takes in nature, magnificent Tintern Abbey, stunning Symonds Yat, and quaint Hay-on-Wye.