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This will be the fifth series of the TV programme and will include Welsh contestants who are eager to win the race
Race Across the World is back on our screens for the fifth series (Image: BBC)
The BBC’s popular adventure show Race Across the World is returning to our small screens this week.
The TV series will follow five pairs as they embark on a low-budget race far away from home and its comforts as they navigate their travel with no flights and no phones. Whoever makes it to the finish line first and within the budget wins. This will be the fifth series of the TV programme and will include Welsh contestants who are eager to win the race.
Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s series – the route, the contestants and how you can watch it. For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter.
What’s the route?
The route will take the contestants through China, Nepal and India.
It will begin at the Great Wall of China, as the five duos embark on a 14,000km race through the three Asian countries and hope to win the cash prize of £20,000.
The aim of the game is to reach various checkpoints without flights or their phones.
They will have to depend on each other, a map and alternative transport such as train or buses to get to where they need to go.
Whoever reaches the checkpoint first, gets a head start for the next leg of the journey.
However, the duos must remain in budget, which is the equivalent of an air fare for travelling the race route.
If the pairs find that they are running out of money, they can work various jobs along the way to make some extra cash to help them on their way to reaching the finish line.
The finish line and final checkpoint will be Kanniyakumari, the southernmost tip of India.
Who are the contestants?
As is often the case in previous series, all contestants work together in pairs and are usually friends or family.
This time round, the series will include former married couple Yin and Gaz, sisters Elizabeth and Letitia, brothers Brian and Melvyn, and mother and son Caroline and Tom.
Welsh viewers will be glad to know that the fifth pair are teenage couple Fin and Sioned from Carmarthenshire.
Fin and Sioned from Carmarthen are set to be the youngest competitors to feature on Race Across the World(Image: BBC/Studio Lambert/Gary Moyes)
Fin and Sioned, who are 18 and 19 years old, are the youngest ever contestants on the show and are in it to win it.
Speaking ahead of the first episode’s airing, Sioned said: “I wanted to travel anyway, so it’s a great start for that, but along with discovering more about myself and Fin, just strengthening that bond in a very real and authentic way.
“We’ve not really been together just the two of us before so this is something where we will have to rely and depend on each other, we don’t have another choice.
“A lot about self-discovery I think as well as seeing more of the world in the process.”
Fin added: “It’s a way to see if me and her can be together basically, if it can work forever. A challenge to see if it will make or break us.” You can read more of the interview here.
How can I watch it?
Viewers can watch the first episode of Race Across the World at 9pm on Wednesday, April 23, on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
The rest of the episodes will be aired on a weekly basis.
Every series has a different route and a different group of contestants, so if you haven’t seen the other series, it is worth watching them on BBC iPlayer too.
And if you can’t wait just yet, here’s the trailer ahead of the fifth series which is also worth the watch.
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Race Across the World’s fifth series begins at 9pm on Wednesday, April 23 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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