Media Review – Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago

Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago is a CTVC-produced BBC three-part series that saw celebrities travel the famous medieval pilgrimage, the Camino de Santiago, considering their own relationship with faith and religion along the way. The group was made up of Kate Bottley, Anglican vicar and Gogglebox star; actor Neil Morrissey; M People singer Heather Small; comedian Ed Byrne; performer Debbie McGee; journalist Raphael Rowe, who spent 12 years in prison for a crime he did not commit; and TV presenter JJ Chalmers, who survived a bomb blast serving as a Royal Marine in Afghanistan.

You can hear what the smallVOICE team made of the programme at around 5’00 minutes in to April’s podcast.

Watch Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago on BBC iPlayer (where available) 

In 1984 just over 400 people completed the final section of the camino, a 62-mile stretch which entitles pilgrims to a compostela, a certificate written in Latin and issued by the cathedral of St James in Santiago. By 2016 the number had topped 278,000, including 6,000 from the UK. (Figures reported in The Guardian)