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Dartmoor

Alex Lyons, dog handler with the Tavistock-Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team, and several members of his team, and their dogs, take Clare for a wild, wet and windy walk on Dartmoor.

Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) in this new series of Ramblings.

Prog 5: Dartmoor with Alex Lyons who is a search and rescue dog handler.

Alex Lyons is a dog handler with the Tavistock-Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team. He and several members of his team - and their dogs - take Clare for a wild, wet and windy walk on Dartmoor. Clare sees how the rescue dogs work, and asks why anyone would want to spend their leisure time doing a voluntary job which is exhausting and occasionally upsetting. The answer? A sense of fulfilment, the opportunity to spend time in beautiful and remote countryside, and - of course - the joy of working with highly trained and intelligent dogs (who make their presence felt, and heard, throughout the programme).

Producer Karen Gregor.

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23 minutes

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  • Thu 31 May 2012 15:00
  • Sat 2 Jun 2012 06:07

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