The BBC Four Thread

Making my way through episodes of Winter Walks at the moment. It’s such a beautiful, relaxing, subtly-uplifting watch, and a merciful change from so much of what’s on television. The footage is filmed by the celebrity ‘walker’ themselves by holding a selfie stick with a 360-degree camera on the end (alongside some aerial drone shots, which I’m a bit iffy about). It might once have been a gimmick, but camera technology has advanced so much that it works extremely well. There’s an intimacy with the walker and you feel like you’re there on the walk yourself.

I’d love for RTE to do an Irish equivalent. They do have Tracks and Trails, but it’s just a standard format travel doc, with segues, voiceovers and background music. None of what makes Winter Walks so special.

Basically, yeah! Easy to parody.