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 most recent episode is from 8 November 2026.
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Derek is hunting down his most terrific treks from the south. His first quest is an adventure between two captivating castles - Caerphilly and Castell Coch.
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Derek Brockway learns how New Quay on Cardigan Bay inspired some of Thomas's greatest work, before touring Laugharne with Dylan Thomas's granddaughter.
Derek Brockway walks in Dylan Thomas's footsteps around Swansea before heading to the Llansteffan Peninsula and the Three Rivers estuary.
Derek’s Welsh island hop sees wildlife on Skomer and Flat Holm Island, and a beach sauna in Anglesey.
October 2026
Derek takes a dip in a glacial lake at Cadair Idris, and visits Portmeirion and Llangollen.
Derek explores what lies beneath his feet when he revisits the Great Orme, the Offa’s Dyke Path and the last surviving cast iron footbridge in Merthyr Tydfil.
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.
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.
Derek is in Cardigan Bay, where he discovers the legend of Cantre’r Gwaelod at Sarn Cynfelyna. Derek also has a go at stand-up paddle-boarding.
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 Eryri 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 the weatherman reflects on some of his favourite walks from south Wales. In the Vale of Glamorgan, Derek is joined by Olympian Colin Jackson.
September 2026
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.
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.
Derek takes the plunge bog snorkelling and walks with opera singer Beverley Humphreys.
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.