World's Most Scenic River Journeys
The stories of epic trips along scenic waterways in Europe and North America, meeting some of the characters who live and work on and alongside them. Narrated by Bill Nighy.
- 2021-2022
- 2 seasons
- Documentary
The stories of epic trips along scenic waterways in Europe and North America, meeting some of the characters who live and work on and alongside them. Narrated by Bill Nighy.
Season 2 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2022
Episode 1
River Bure, Norfolk
43 mins
The series telling the story of epic trips along waterways returns with a look at the River Bure in Norfolk. Cameras travel from the tranquillity of the upper river, through the holiday hub of Wroxham, and through historical open fenlands.
Episode 2
River Dordogne, France
44 mins
A magical voyage through the green heart of South-West France. Travel by traditional boats down a once-vital highway and take a hot air balloon over fairytale castles, which hide a turbulent past, but now form a tranquil playground.
Episode 3
Guadalquivir, Spain
44 mins
We begin our journey down the Guadalquivir, Spain's second longest river, in the Sierras de Cazorla before paddle boarding to the great plains of Andalusia. Cordoba, the water gardens of the Alcazar and Seville are visited.
Episode 4
River Suir, Ireland
44 mins
Ireland's river Suir flows with the history of the emerald island. From its headwaters in Devils Bit Mountains of County Tipperary down to the Hook Lighthouse in Waterford Bay.
Episode 5
The Yukon
44 mins
A journey down one of the wildest rivers in the world, the Yukon. The unusual trip starts in an aircraft piloted by a painter and the odyssey ends with a visit to a graveyard of disintegrating rear-wheel steamers.
Episode 6
The St Lawrence
44 mins
The St. Lawrence River is known as the river that forged North America and begins in Canada's first capital city Kingston and continues through the Thousand Islands.
Episode 7
Buller River, New Zealand
60 mins
We follow in the wake of the earliest European explorers as we venture down the untamed waters of the Buller River on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.
Episode 8
The Potomac
60 mins
A journey that flows through the very heart of America. It is on the shores of the Potomac that a new and mighty nation emerged, formed, convulsed, and continues
Episode 9
The Neretva
60 mins
Rumoured to be the cleanest river in Europe, few dispute it's the coldest, cascading down from the Dinaric Alps in Serbia, it soon crosses the border into Bosnia Herzegovina, where marine biologist and fisherman Sanel Ridanovic casts for Soft Mouthed Trout.
Episode 10
The Suwanee
60 mins
The film shows the meandering of the black waters of a primordial river immortalized in a folk song.