BBC One’s Race Across the World is back for its fifth series, in which five teams of two race across China, Nepal, and India in the hope of winning £20,000 prize money – and finding a new dynamic in their relationship.
We are transported to just north of Beijing, overlooking the village of Huanghuacheng, when we meet the contestants: two sisters, two brothers, a mum and her son, a teenage couple from Wales – and, wait for it, the show’s first separated couple; Yin and Gaz, both 54, whose 31-year marriage has ended.
