Rosie’s travel show with a difference...

COMEDIAN Rosie Jones is pitching her travel show to a Channel 4 commissioner, who looks largely unimpressed, but gives in.

“Well I suppose people might watch you go round Britain,” sighs Saskia, played in this heightened reality travel documentary by Rachel Stubbings.

“And in a way you’re very good for us, you tick a lot of boxes: woman, disabled, gay, northern…”

The result is this very funny road trip that sees Rosie, who has cerebral palsy, joined by lots of celebrities on a journey doing the only things legally permissible in lockdown. We’re promised that “like a disabled, northern Joanna Lumley”, Rosie will travel Britain, sampling regional delicacies, finding out what makes Brits tick and learning local traditions – “while trying not to fall over”.

Intercut with the scenes of Rosie on her travels, we also see her frequent run-ins with Saskia, who is too busy dealing with her famous clients to give this show her full attention.

It’s a brilliantly unique reality/travel show hybrid, with a comedian at the helm to guarantee laughs, and narrated by Olivia Colman no less. Beginning in the Lake District with Scarlett Moffatt, they seek inspiration for their own poetry at William Wordsworth’s former home, re-enact a Viking battle at Kendal Castle and bed down with a couple of stallions when they check in at one of the most unusual hotel rooms imaginable.

The pair also meet a food historian to learn about the region’s ancient cuisine and run into a spot of bother with a very old and fragile sausage making machine.