This landmark series will see the ever popular Kevin McCloud following in the footsteps of the most notorious aristocrats, artists and architects of ‘the Grand Tour’.
Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour – Pick of the Day
by Phil Harrison, Time Out What’s endearing about McCloud, is that rather than damning the Brits for their lack of originality, he praises their adventurousness and adaptability. It’s this kind of open-minded optimism that has made the series such a pleasure. McCloud’s also been a wonderful game guide – tonight, he abseils into a terrifying… [Continue Reading]
Review of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour
Tom Sutcliffe The Independent In Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour, Channel 4′s resident building buff is retracing the steps of the young aristocrats who went on “history’s equivalent of the gap year” and he is in rhapsodic mood. In Genoa, McCloud interviewed an unusually bookish-looking prostitute (the Grand Tour was a sexual adventure as much as… [Continue Reading]
Sam Wollaston in The Guardian
Sam Wollaston In Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour (Channel 4, Sunday) the Grand Designs man is off in the footsteps of the posh, floppy-haired young men who used to go touring and whoring round Europe in the olden days. It was a rite of passage, just as the TV travelogue is now a rite of passage… [Continue Reading]
