Race Across The World: 12 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets You Probably Never Knew

There's a lot that goes into the Bafta-winning reality show that most of us never even get to see.

Entertainment Editor, HuffPost UK

Although it might not have the Bushtucker Trials of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! or the physical demands of SAS: Who Dares Wins, but there is no doubt that Race Across The World is one of the toughest shows on TV – and that goes for both its contestants and production team.

Now into its sixth season, with a new crop of travellers being put through their paces on a globe-trotting adventure, most viewers are now familiar with the rules of the BBC show.

But what about all the parts that we don’t know about, and the planning that goes into making the show? Well, allow us to lift the lid…

1. The routes are tested out before the show

If you thought bosses just came up with a route for the contestants and hoped for the best, you’d be wrong. In fact, a whole team of people test it out beforehand.

Line producer Maria Kennedy told Radio Times: “You get some really brave people out on the road for a couple of months [from the production team]. [They tell us], ‘Here are going to be the sticking points. This is quite tricky. This bit is amazing’.”

She added: “They do it all on a budget as well so they’re not like going out and spending loads of money and having a great jolly. They’re literally looking at the budget and seeing if it’s possible to get by on less than 50 quid a day.”

2. For the producers, the trip is perhaps even harder than for the contestants

According to the Guardian, only two producers go on the dry run, only one of whom actually knows the route and which way they are going.

“The other person has no idea and that person is in charge of making the decisions,” series producer Lucy Curtis said.

3. A number of other unseen people travel with each team

Each time travels with two members of the production crew, a local fixer and a security adviser, but they apparently keep enough distance to “make........

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