Race Across the World review – would you really do this show with your ex?

Five brave duos battle the epic 14,000km trek across Asia … and this time, there are teenage lovers and a separated couple. Warning: there will be tears and travel disastersIt’s hard to believe that Race Across the World has only been on TV since 2019, so integral is it to the BBC’s springtime schedules. In six short years, the reality competition has become a flagship format, skipping over from BBC Two to BBC One and scooping up Baftas for both its civilian and celebrity series, which airs in the autumn. And so to a fifth adventure for Britain’s bravest normies, who are dumped at a far-flung location and told to make it to another, via a series of hard-to-reach checkpoints. As always, they’re given the price of an air fare between the start and finish lines, which has to cover bed, board and transport for two whole months, with the possibility of earning some extra dosh by working strenuous jobs such as cleaning or working in kitchens. And, as ever, the cracks begin to show slowly – then all at once – for the pairs.There are some firsts this time around. If you thought 20-year-olds Owen and Alfie from the last series were young, get ready for teenage couple Fin and Sioned, who at 18 and 19 are the show’s youngest ever contestants. Yin and Gaz are also the show’s first separated couple, and the story of their against-the-odds relationship and subsequent split unfurls in shocking fashion over the first episode. While this revelation shattered any remaining belief I had in the power of love, next week’s second episode does well to provide more context to their split – and hopefully to stop random people across the country (and by that, I mean me) petitioning to get them back together. Continue reading...

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