World's Most Scenic River Journeys

We go on a magical journey along England's holiday river, the River Bure. A journey from the tranquillity of the upper river through the holiday hub of Wroxham and beyond.

Escape on a magical voyage through the green heart of South-West France. We travel by traditional boats down a once-vital highway.

The latest journey begins on the Guadalquivir, Spain's second longest river. Cameras also focus on the great Muslim city of Cordoba, and there is a visit to the water gardens of the Alcazar, before travelling on to Seville. There the spotlight shines on a paralympic oarsman.

Bill Nighy narrates a journey down Ireland's River Suir. From its headwaters in Devil's Bit Mountain, County Tipperary, down to the Hook Lighthouse in County Wexford, it's a river that flows with the history of the Emerald Isle.

Cameras trek up to Canada's far northern reaches for a rough and tumble journey down one of the wildest rivers in the world, the Yukon. The unusual trip starts in an aircraft piloted by a painter, and the odyssey ends with a visit to a graveyard of disintegrating rear-wheel steamers.

The St. Lawrence River is known as the river that forged North America.

We follow the waters of the Buller River on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.

It is on the shores of the Potomac that a new and mighty nation emerged.

Narrated by Bill Nighy, this is a journey down Bosnia and Herzegovina's Neretva River, which flows like a healing balm through a country riven by war. At its headwaters high in the Dinaric Alps, a place where bears and wolves still outnumber humans, we begin our journey with Amel Emric. He is a veteran war photographer, who covered the destruction of his country in the 1990s.

We go down rapids made dangerous by sharp limestone and we chat with a park ranger.