Who says it cost the license payers anything? His own production company would have made it and then the Beeb would buy it if they thought it was good viewing or told them to speak to C5 is it wasn't. Where will it end - the original adventure format now seems to have become a licence for Charley Boorman to satisfy every self-centred travel whim he might come up with. Web Site: Twitter: of this year’s festival programme can be found elsewhere on this website.Long way round - great adventure Long way down - ok, version of a format By any means - taking the p1ss with licence-payers money for one guy to spend his life gallivanting round the world on someone else's tab. He was recently a finalist on Celebrity Masterchef 2014. From 1998 to 2002, he also ran a British motorcycle team with Ewan McGregor, winning the Superstock Series with David Jeffries.Ĭharley is currently a columnist for Australian Road Rider magazine and an ambassador for Bremont Watches. He went on to star in films such as Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope And Glory and, more recently, Karaoke, The Serpent’s Kiss and The Bunker.īorn in London in 1966, he grew up in Ireland and has a passion for motorbikes, spending much of his childhood riding motorcross.
This was then followed by a second BBC series in 2009 Charley Boorman: Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means.Ĭharley’s career on screen began at an early age with his first film role as Ed’s Boy, Jon Voight’s son in Deliverence, directed by his father John Boorman. More recently Charley has gone solo, traveling overland for BBC series Charley Boorman:Wicklow to Sydney By Any Means where he traveled by any means of transport appropriate to the country from his hometown of Wicklow in Ireland to Sydney, Australia.
Following the success of this series McGregor and Boorman went on to star in Long Way Down, again travelling by motorbike, this time from John O’Groats to Cape Town.
His first big adventure was the award winning series Long Way Round biking overland from London to New York with good friend Ewan McGregor. Actor and Adventurer Charley Boorman has successfully been producing adventure travel documentaries for the BBC, SKY and National Geographic Channel since 2004.
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