The North Wales Pilgrim’s Way will feature in the sixth series of Pilgrimage that returns to the BBC in March 2024, as seven public figures of differing faiths and beliefs tackle a modern-day pilgrimage.
Across three 60-minute episodes on BBC Two – also available on BBC iPlayer – Pilgrimage: The Road to Wild Wales will follow the seven pilgrims as they journey along a 220km route that embraces early Christian Celtic saints. Their final destination is Bardsey Island, the fabled “Island of 20,000 saints”, just off the western tip of the Llyn Peninsula, which extends 30 miles into the Irish Sea from North West Wales.
“They say that if you go on a pilgrimage, there’s a hope that by the end of it there will have been some sort of realisation, so I’m looking forward to finding mine,” says Amanda Lovett, 56, the only Catholic in the group, who catapulted to public attention in the first series of BBC’s The Traitors.
