Clare Balding's new TV show filmed in Oxford out this week
Clare Balding has filmed a new TV show in Oxfordshire which is out this week.
The broadcast journalist and author currently presents for BBC Sport and Channel 4 having previously worked for BT Sport, now TNT Sports.
She formerly presented the Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2 but has now turned her attention back to television with a new show.
In Channel 5's Tales from the Riverbank, Ms Balding will travel down the River Thames making several stops on the way.
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One of our locks appears in 'Tales from the Riverbank' this Thursday, 8pm on Channel 5. Clare Balding explores the River Thames in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, including meeting our lock keeper Lee at Lechlade. pic.twitter.com/18Zx0OQwwd
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The river stretches over 200 miles from Gloucestershire to Essex, and along its route, the presenter discovers how it stoked the imagination of writers and painters.
She stops off at the 'dreaming spires' of Oxford and goes in search of Toad Hall when she visits the landscapes that inspired Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows.
Making her way to stately home and five-star hotel, Cliveden House, she meets Swan Marker David Barber, and the trip wouldn't be complete without a visit to the famous Windsor Castle.
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A social media update on X from the Environment Agency in the South East said: 'One of our locks appears in 'Tales from the Riverbank' this Thursday, 8pm on Channel 5.
'Clare Balding explores the River Thames in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, including meeting our lock keeper Lee at Lechlade.'
Tales from the Riverbank starring Clare Balding will air at 8pm on Thursday (February 27) on Channel 5.
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