Weatherman Walking
Weatherman Walking is a TV show on BBC2. Weatherman Derek Brockway swaps the studio for some of Wales' most beautiful and spectacular sights - and meets people making the most of the nation's great outdoors. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 38 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2026.
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Weatherman Walking
Weather duo Derek Brockway and Sian Lloyd pedal around Lake Vyrnwy and learn about the village that was flooded to make way for the reservoir which still supplies Liverpool with water.
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Derek takes the plunge bog snorkelling and walks with opera singer Beverley Humphreys.
Series 13
Weatherman Derek Brockway visits the Elan Valley in Powys and discovers the role the area played in the famous Dambusters attacks of World War Two.
Weatherman Derek Brockway walks the Clywedog Valley Trail in north Wales and learns about Iron Mad Jack, who revolutionised the iron industry.
Weatherman Derek Brockway visits Hirwaun in Rhondda Cynon Taf to learn about the town’s industrial heritage.
Series 2
In three of Derek’s top coastal rambles, he gets a dunking in Pembrokeshire, discovers why Porth Neigwl is dubbed Hell’s Mouth and meets some volunteers called the Silver Slashers.
Series 13
Weatherman Derek Brockway follows the Heart of Wales Railway in Carmarthenshire and takes part in the World Bog Snorkelling championships.
Weatherman Derek Brockway walks the five-mile Salmon Leaps circular trail in Dinas Powys near Cardiff and joins in the village show.
Weatherman Derek Brockway explores the River Teifi and takes part in the annual coracle races.
Weatherman Derek Brockway is on a circular walk around the beautiful town of Usk, which starts and ends at Usk castle.
Weatherman Derek Brockway needs wet weather gear when he visits the Celtic rainforest in Gwynedd.
Series 2
Derek recalls three maritime walks that are packed with stories of shipwrecks along the Wales coast, including one about the Royal Charter which went down with 400 lives lost.
Derek delves into Wales’s industrial past, including the slate trail in Gwyneddf and the Glo-Aur, a 17-mile walk to commemorate the Cymmer Mining Disaster, which claimed 114 lives.
Derek explores three well-known castles along his favourite heritage walks. They include the impressive Powys Castle, the spooky Margam Castle and the medieval Kidwelly Castle.
Mynydd Sygun in Eryi National Park, the Black Mountains in the east of Bannau Brycheiniog and Table Mountain in Powys all feature among Derek’s favourite mountain walks.
Derek visits the Lourdes of Wales, sees how walking aids a cancer patient’s recuperation and helps a woman with sight loss enjoy birdwatching.
Derek goes island hopping, visiting Caldey off the Pembrokeshire coast, then Anglesey, known for its seabirds, before finishing in south Wales at Barry Island, his childhood home.
Derek Brockway revisits three wildlife walks. First, he braves the rain in Gwynedd, then hunts for water voles in Radnorshire and finally sees ancient rock formations in Ceredigion.
Derek takes a circular walk around Carreg Cennen Castle, one of the most dramatic, photogenic and romantic castles in Wales.
Series 2, Episode 9 - Welsh Waterways
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Derek follows the River Taff to Breacon, stands on Devil’s Bridge in Pontarfynach and takes the steam train around Barmouth Bay, as he revisits his most loved waterways walks.