Walking with... (2019 TV series)

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Walking with... is a BBC English Regions television series where presenters take solitary walks along scenic paths, filming themselves and their surroundings with a 360-degree camera on a selfie stick. It is produced by Cy Chadwick.

The series follows the concept of the 2019 series Yorkshire Walks, which was followed by a number of regional programmes under the name Winter Walks,[1] The Walk That Made Me and Walking with, with these regional titles acquiring national slots, on either BBC Two or BBC Four, for repeat showings.

Format[]

In each of the programmes the presenter walks through interesting scenery filming themself and their surroundings with a 360-degree camera on a selfie stick, and talking about the route and other matters. They record interviews with people they meet, and read one or two poems appropriate to their walk, but there is no other spoken voice-over commentary, as on-screen captions are used instead. The main captions appear on screen to show place names, the Ordnance Survey Grid reference[2][3][4][5] points and distance travelled of the walker, with other information, describing points of interest, the time until sunset and facts from history,[6][4][7] appearing at intervals along the walk, usually in smaller text at the bottom of the screen. There are clips of drone footage showing the walker in the landscape: their red rucksack makes them easily seen.

Yorkshire Walks[]

Walking with...
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes4
Production
ProducerCy Chadwick
Running time29 minutes
Production companyAtypical Media
Release
Original networkBBC Four[a]
Original releaseNovember 2019 (2019-11)

Cy Chadwick produced the series Yorkshire Walks for BBC Four and the northern regions in 2019, in which Bradford artist Shanaz Gulzar walked scenic paths in Yorkshire. The four episodes showed her walking from Leyburn to Bolton Castle,[9] Heptonstall to Stoodley Pike,[10] Runswick Bay to Whitby,[11] and Bolton Abbey to Simon's Seat.[12] [13][14][15] The four episodes were all first broadcast at the same time in the BBC's northern regions starting on 25 November 2019 (as part of BBC One's regional opt-out slot at 7pm), before being repeated nationally on BBC Four the first week in December 2019. Since then the series has been repeated nationally on both BBC Two and BBC Four, with the northern regions last repeating their episodes as part of BBC One's schedule opt-outs on 20 July 2021 at 8:30pm.

Winter Walks[]

Winter Walks
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes9
Production
ProducerCy Chadwick
Running time29 minutes
Production companyAtypical Media
Release
Original networkBBC Four[b]
Original release15 December 2020 (2020-12-15) –
2 December 2021 (2021-12-02)

Filming shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Chadwick made the series Winter Walks for BBC England and its five episodes were broadcast in January 2021 on BBC Four. This used the same filming technique but a different walker for each episode. Selina Scott walked in Wharfedale;[17] poet Simon Armitage walked on the Yorkshire Coast near Robin Hood's Bay;[18] Lemn Sissay walked in Dentdale towards England's highest railway station;[19] Baroness Sayeeda Warsi walked near Kettlewell;[20] the Reverend Richard Coles walked from Sutton Bank to Rievaulx Abbey.[21][22][23][24] The choice of many of the walkers ties in with the format of the series, as each contributor has poetry to read (used over drone footage) and as many of the walkers' routes pass sites of religious importance.

A second series was broadcast in November and December 2021, with four episodes.[25] Amanda Owen walked in Wensleydale and Raydale;[26] Alastair Campbell walked near Settle, starting at Scaleber Force;[27] Reverend Kate Bottley walked from Jervaulx Abbey to Middleham Castle along Wensleydale[28] and Coverdale; and Nihal Arthanayake walked from Arnside, over Arnside Knott, to Jenny Brown's Point near Silverdale.[29]

Winter Walks is also broadcast on BBC One as part of the BBC's commitment to regional programming with all four programmes from series two being broadcast at the same time beginning on 8 December 2021[30][31] in Northern regions with, for example, Nihal Arthanayake's[32] walk being shown on BBC One North West and Alastair Campbell's snow-covered walk going out in the main Yorkshire region.[7]

Walking with...[]

Walking with...
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerCy Chadwick
Running time29 minutes
Production companyAtypical Media
Release
Original networkBBC One[c]
Original release10 November 2021 (2021-11-10) –
present

Prior to the second series of Winter Walks, a summer series called Walking with...[33] was developed for the regions, with all the episodes going out regionally starting on 27 October 2021, before being repeated weekly on BBC Two in late 2021. The walkers with the camera stick in series 1 were:

Chris Packham: The Walk That Made Me[]

Chris Packham: The Walk That Made Me was a special hour-long version of the format with naturalist Chris Packham walking along the River Itchen in Hampshire towards Winchester Cathedral. The programme was first broadcast as a regional variation for people living in Oxfordshire and the south on BBC One, 9 July 2021, before being shown nationwide on BBC Two on 28 July 2021 (with further repeats on BBC Two in early August).[40]

Notes[]

  1. ^ This series debuted as a regional show on BBC One, but is listed as a production for BBC Four on the BBC iPlayer[8].
  2. ^ This series debuted on 15 December 2020 as a regional show on BBC One, but is listed as a production for BBC Four on the BBC iPlayer[16].
  3. ^ This series is listed as a production for BBC One on the BBC iPlayer, but has only been networked nationally on BBC Two.

References[]

  1. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Simon Armitage". BBC.
  2. ^ Amanda Owen walked from Bainbridge to Semer Water on BBC Four 29 November 2021, with Bainbridge listed onscreen with a grid reference of SD 93378 90367
  3. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 2, Amanda Owen". BBC.
  4. ^ a b "OS Maps: online mapping and walking, running and cycling routes". osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Grid Reference Finder". gridreferencefinder.com.
  6. ^ From Alastair Campbell's walk in the Yorkshire Dales on BBC Four 30 November 2021/1 December 2021: Langcliffe (OS Grid Ref: SD 82248 65015) has a fact about Scottish raiders destroying the village
  7. ^ a b "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 2, Alastair Campbell". BBC.
  8. ^ "BBC Four - Yorkshire Walks".
  9. ^ "BBC Four - Yorkshire Walks, Series 1, Leyburn to Bolton Castle". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  10. ^ "BBC Four - Yorkshire Walks, Series 1, Heptonstall to Stoodley Pike". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  11. ^ "BBC Four - Yorkshire Walks, Series 1, Runswick Bay to Whitby". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  12. ^ "BBC Four - Yorkshire Walks, Series 1, Bolton Abbey to Simon's Seat". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  13. ^ "Artist Shanaz Gulzar introduces her favourite Yorkshire walks in a new series for BBC Four". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  14. ^ Gordon, Maxine (16 November 2019). "New BBC show on Yorkshire walks". York Press. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  15. ^ Gulzar, Shanaz (2020). "Stepping out as lockdown lifts". Welcome to Yorkshire. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  16. ^ "BBC Four - Yorkshire Walks".
  17. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Selina Scott". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  18. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Simon Armitage". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  19. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Lemn Sissay". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  20. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  21. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Richard Coles". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  22. ^ "BBC England series Winter Walks comes to BBC Four". www.bbc.co.uk. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  23. ^ "Winter Walks: Episodes". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC Four. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  24. ^ Cooke, Rachel (2 January 2021). "Like Dickens, we're learning the value of plodding through our frigid streets". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  25. ^ Meek, Natasha (29 November 2021). "BBC Winter Walks walking routes and full line-up revealed". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  26. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 2, Amanda Owen". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  27. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 2, Alastair Campbell". BBC. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  28. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 2, Kate Bottley". BBC.
  29. ^ "Winter Walks". BBC Four. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  30. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks - Next on". BBC.
  31. ^ Radio Times for the North, page 90 (BBC One listings), 4-10 December 2021 issue
  32. ^ "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 2, Nihal Arthanayake". BBC.
  33. ^ "BBC One - Walking With... - Available now". BBC.
  34. ^ "BBC One - Walking With..., Series 1, Walking with Jim Moir". BBC.
  35. ^ "BBC One - Walking With..., Series 1, Walking with Kate Garraway". BBC.
  36. ^ "BBC One - Walking With..., Series 1, Walking with Monica Galetti". BBC.
  37. ^ "BBC One - Walking With..., Series 1, Walking with Nick Grimshaw". BBC.
  38. ^ "BBC One - Walking With..., Series 1, Walking with Shappi Khorsandi". BBC.
  39. ^ "BBC One - Walking With..., Series 1, Walking with Steph McGovern". BBC.
  40. ^ "BBC One - Chris Packham: The Walk That Made Me". BBC.

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