Now in its seventh series, this programme produces the kind of thoughtful conversations that can only truly happen away from the online shouting. This year, seven notables from the worlds of presenting, sport, comedy, pop music, journalism and reality TV trek the Jakobsweg trail over 300km through the Alps from Austria to Switzerland. There are worse backdrops to a TV series – lush green pastures dotted with wild flowers, forest tracks and snow-covered peaks are in every direction.
There are worse places to film a TV series than the Alps (Photo: BBC/CTVC)
“Life was simple as an athlete,” says former Paralympian Stefanie Reid. But now, at 39, she struggles with the expectations around potential parenthood. Meanwhile, Jeff Brazier explains how he has used his spirituality to navigate life as a single father following the death of the mother of his children, his ex-partner Jade Goody, when she was just 27.
square TV Jeff Brazier on Pilgrimage, a cheeky nun and sharing a bed with his co-star
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“Why would you not ask?” says comedian and writer Helen Lederer of her belief in a benevolent God, despite the family members murdered in concentration camps during the Second World War. As she treks, her huge eyes seem to search the snowy mountain tops for clues. Her dad took her skiing in Austria as a child and she knows the flood of memories is going to be hard.
Comedian Daliso Chaponda offers his own thoughts on the blending of different faiths, citing Malawian witch doctors from one strand of his heritage, and their displaying of ancestral symbols alongside representations of the Virgin Mary. His own faith, he says, is closest to the Bahá’i religion, which says we all have one spiritual goal but aim to get there via different paths, embracing other religions. Then he confesses his first encounter with the Bahá’i was at the invitation of a “hot girl”.
Harry Clark meets Brother Franz at the Abbey of Stams in Austria (Photo: BBC/CTVC)As with Gone Fishing, the unassuming chatter of people in nature really draws you in when it’s presented this skilfully. Pilgrimage is quietly brilliant in the way TV isn’t really allowed to be anymore – everything else is fighting to grab headlines and eyeballs in order to justify its existence.
‘Pilgrimage’ continues tomorrow at 9pm on BBC Two
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