Pilgrimage will follow seven celebrity pilgrims, as they take a personal journey along a route that celebrates Celtic early Christian saints, with Bardsey Island the fabled ‘Island of 20,000 saints’, just off the western tip of the Llyn Peninsula – as their final destination.

Immersing themselves on this spiritual journey are:

• wild life presenter Michaela Strachan, who places her faith in the natural world;
• Spencer Matthews, a former reality TV star turned entrepreneur, who was christened Church of England but is still searching for answers to life’s big questions;
• Sonali Shah, a journalist and TV presenter who was raised in a Jain household;
• comedian Eshaan Akbar, a lapsed Muslim;
• Amanda Lovett, a practising Catholic, who catapulted to public attention in the first series of BBC’s The Traitors;
• actor Tom Rosenthal, star of Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner, who calls himself ‘areligious’;
• TV personality and former model, Christine McGuinness, who is spiritual but doesn’t practise one particular faith.

Created in 2011 by a team including Chris Potter, the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way is linked by ancient churches dedicated to sixth and seventh century saints, but also takes pilgrims through outstanding places of natural beauty in the mountain ranges of Eryri, also known as Snowdonia, and the North Wales coast path.

The annual North Wales Pilgrimage  from Basingwerk Abbey to Bardsey Island begins on 4 May. You can find details of how to join at https://pilgrims-way-north-wales.org/news.html

You can follow the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way at https://pilgrims-way-north-wales.org/ and the first episode of Pilgrimage is due to be shown on BBC2 and iPlayer on Good Friday (time TBC).