TALES FROM THE RIVERBANK

CELEB + WALK + PRIMETIME TV is always a decent combo, and the BBC has nailed it nicely with its latest venture, River Walks. The programme consists of 11 different documentaries, in each of which a well-known wanderer walks the length of a river that’s close to home for them. Broadcaster and CW columnist Stuart Maconie reveals the secretive Hodder in Lancashire; blind explorer Amar Latif (founder of innovative walking holiday firm TravelEyes) covers the Nidd in Yorkshire; journalist Rachel Johnson puts the Exe in Exmoor alongside her father Stanley; anthropologist Miranda Krestovnikoff follows the Deben through Suffolk, while JLS singer-turned-farmer JB Gill is your guide to the Stour in Kent.

The programmes will be shown in a region-specific slot at 7.30pm on December 10th – but thereafter you can find all of them on BBC iPlayer.  Stuart waxes lyrical about his Hodder adventure on page 31.

Live streaming: Stuart Maconie by the Hodder.

Rachel and Stanley Johnson get set for a walk. (Boris was doing something else, apparently.)