Overview
- Patsy Kensit says filming left her in tears and she found it hard to bond at first because, in her words, people had hurt her in the past.
- The new run follows a roughly 390 km walk through North Yorkshire, County Durham and Northumberland to Holy Island, with stops at Whitby Abbey and UNESCO-listed Durham Cathedral.
- The cast brings a wide mix of beliefs, with Ashley Banjo identifying as a Christian, Hasan Al-Habib as a Muslim, Tasha Ghouri as an atheist, Ashley Blaker as an Orthodox Jewish comic, and others sharing varied spiritual views.
- BBC Two and iPlayer will carry the series, which pairs shared hardship on the trail with open talks about faith, identity and recovery.
- This is the eighth series of Pilgrimage, and the programme is set to receive a Sandford Saint Martin Trustees’ Award at Lambeth Palace in June.