First viewed : 5 April 1988
Having missed the first series featuring my walking hero due to not having access to a TV in Leeds I did catch some of this second series he made with farmer and broadcaster Eric Robson. I should include the caveat that he wasn't quite as big a hero to me as before, the revelations of his somewhat bitter worldview and shabby treatment of his first wife in the recently-published Ex-Fellwanderer having somewhat taken the shine away.
Still it was reasonably enjoyable to see and hear the old guy even though the series was about somewhere I'd never walked and didn't have any plans to visit. I remember them visiting Cape Wrath in Sutherland and Robson having to intervene to stop the now visually impaired octogenarian from wandering over the edge of a cliff.
A repeat of the first series followed shortly afterwards.
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