0:00:02 > 0:00:05In the last few years, Sport Relief has challenged some of our most
0:00:05 > 0:00:08athletic celebrities to help raise money for charity.
0:00:11 > 0:00:12Mmm.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14But this year is different.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17I think it's because I'm really fit.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19In both senses of the word.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Rebel comedian Jo Brand
0:00:21 > 0:00:23is attempting to walk across England from east to west.
0:00:25 > 0:00:29Sport Relief don't know what they've let themselves in for.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33This is a 58-year-old woman, who is incredibly unfit,
0:00:33 > 0:00:35is morbidly obese.
0:00:35 > 0:00:36Ow!
0:00:36 > 0:00:39This has the potential to be an absolute car crash.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45It's a mad march over some of Britain's toughest terrain.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46Oh, my God!
0:00:46 > 0:00:49A challenge that's going to push her both physically...
0:00:49 > 0:00:51- You can see the conditions...- Whoa!
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Oh, hello, Jo's over.
0:00:53 > 0:00:54..and mentally.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58There was a massive, dark vacuum in my head
0:00:58 > 0:01:00that smacked to me of suicide.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03She'll attempt to walk up to 14 hours...
0:01:03 > 0:01:05MOCK SOBBING
0:01:05 > 0:01:08..and over 20 miles each day.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Let me go home!
0:01:11 > 0:01:13With friends to push her on...
0:01:13 > 0:01:15That's really helpful, thank you, Alan.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18..and the nation behind her...
0:01:18 > 0:01:19Thank you very much.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21..it's going to be one hell of a walk.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23What is this all about?!
0:01:23 > 0:01:30This programme contains strong language.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33The fine art of tying one's shoelaces.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36It's just that I've got quite fat feet.
0:01:36 > 0:01:40And not only are they quite fat, they get fatter when I'm walking.
0:01:40 > 0:01:41We've got the defib and we've got the oxygen,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43so you'll be all right.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47It's the first day of Jo Brand's Sport Relief challenge.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51A car full of old blokes.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54My sexual fantasy, that is.
0:01:54 > 0:01:59I am a reasonably ordinary person of 58 years old.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01I've been through the menopause, and that's made me really grumpy,
0:02:01 > 0:02:03which I'm enjoying immensely.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08'I'm married. I have two children who are in their teens.'
0:02:08 > 0:02:11I'm worried about what time my daughter's piano lesson is.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13'I've a really busy life.'
0:02:13 > 0:02:16And that's before I even start the walking business, you know.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21It all comes to this.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23And...
0:02:23 > 0:02:24Yeah, I'm going home later.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31See that big bridge in the background?
0:02:31 > 0:02:34I'm going to do a swallow dive off the middle of it.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35- Best of luck, Jo!- OK.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Five, four, three...!
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Thank you very much.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40..two, one!
0:02:40 > 0:02:42HORN
0:02:45 > 0:02:47CHEERING
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Jo is planning to walk the Trans Pennine Trail,
0:02:53 > 0:02:55one side of the country to the other,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57From the Humber Bridge to Liverpool.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03From the lows of the Humberhead peatlands,
0:03:03 > 0:03:05to the heights of the Peak District.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Over 20 miles, every day, for a week.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Her route is not the most direct.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Instead, she winds through
0:03:15 > 0:03:16the towns and cities
0:03:16 > 0:03:18of the industrialised North.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21A gruelling trek, even for a seasoned walker.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25It's not going to be easy.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Although I am an optimistic person,
0:03:28 > 0:03:32so I prefer to think that I'm going to manage it.
0:03:32 > 0:03:37And I think it's very important that I do manage it,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39because I'm doing this
0:03:39 > 0:03:44on behalf of all the portly, middle-aged women in the country
0:03:44 > 0:03:47who need to get up off their bums,
0:03:47 > 0:03:49get a bit of exercise,
0:03:49 > 0:03:52live a bit longer!
0:03:52 > 0:03:55So they can bicker with their husbands a few more years,
0:03:55 > 0:03:58shout at their kids for a bit longer,
0:03:58 > 0:04:00and eat more chips!
0:04:06 > 0:04:07Anyone know the way?
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Morning!
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- Good luck, smash it! - Thank you very much.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Today's route will take Jo more than 20 miles,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19following the Humber Estuary inland.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23She'll be visiting the small and sometimes forgotten towns,
0:04:23 > 0:04:26to meet the people who shape those communities.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29And she's attracting a crowd already.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32This wonderful woman here has walked to Liverpool from here
0:04:32 > 0:04:33three times, is that right?
0:04:33 > 0:04:35I've done this route three times, yeah.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37She's put me to shame.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40- Good morning, are you all right? - Only another 138 go!
0:04:40 > 0:04:42- BLEEP- knackered already.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45I really am! I really am.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46I love Jo,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49because she don't give a toss about what she looks like
0:04:49 > 0:04:51or what she says.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52Have a good walk!
0:04:52 > 0:04:54She don't put on a face.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56This is Jo. As you see her, this is Jo.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03One reason I want to do this is because I'm getting older.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08As women age, they're presumed by the rest of society
0:05:08 > 0:05:11to be a bit dowdy and blobby
0:05:11 > 0:05:14and, in many ways, pretty useless.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15I'm so proud of you!
0:05:15 > 0:05:19They just become more invisible the older they get.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23- It's quite nice having your own personal lollipop lady.- Oh, yes.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26- Thank you very much.- The power!
0:05:26 > 0:05:27I kind of do want to do it.
0:05:27 > 0:05:32Hopefully, calling other women my age and my level of fitness
0:05:32 > 0:05:35to arms and saying, you know, it's not as bad as you think.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41- This way.- Over there?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Anne Hardy started walking as a form of therapy.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- And do you do walking normally? - I don't really.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50I thought I was getting divorced a few years ago,
0:05:50 > 0:05:56and I started walking, just to pad round the streets and de-stress,
0:05:56 > 0:05:57so I weren't in the house with him.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59- That is quite a good way to do it. - It did.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- It works all sorts out in your head, really, walking.- Yeah, yeah.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05If she can do it, anybody can do it, really.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08We've all got inner strengths, and sometimes,
0:06:08 > 0:06:11it ain't until we're actually called to pull them out the bag,
0:06:11 > 0:06:13that we realise what we have got.
0:06:13 > 0:06:18I think that's something that a lot of women, they do compromise
0:06:18 > 0:06:22for the sake of, not only their other half, but their kids as well.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26You spend a lot of time doing what THEY want.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29And so the opportunity to please yourself,
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- I think, it is really great.- It is.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35In fact, I'm going to get a divorce.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- You've inspired me. - Are you? Is that the new news?
0:06:38 > 0:06:41- Is that the breaking news today? - Hello, you watching, love?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43THEY LAUGH
0:06:43 > 0:06:44Get down the solicitors.
0:06:47 > 0:06:48Kids, I'm only joking!
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Seven miles in on day one, and Jo's making good progress.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01But things were very different four months ago,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04when she attended a Sport Relief fitness assessment.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07I haven't got my right shoes on.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Why not?
0:07:08 > 0:07:12I have got some jogging bottoms, but I think the moths have had them.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15I've got no idea if she understand the enormity of the challenge.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18I've no idea what her current physical condition is.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Do me a favour and just pop onto the saddle...
0:07:21 > 0:07:26Greg Whyte, an ex-Olympian, is more used to training elite athletes.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29- We're going to put lots of bits of kit on you...- OK, fair enough.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32He needs to assess whether she's up to the challenge.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36This test, as you'll see, really is about how long she can go for.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38She's got to keep pushing and pushing and pushing.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Anyone got any fags?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41LAUGHTER
0:07:41 > 0:07:44If she gives up early, that's a very bad sign for us.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52A fit 58-year-old person should be able to sustain this
0:07:52 > 0:07:54for half an hour.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Let's go now, Jo.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59I'm faltering a bit.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Let's drive, let's drive!
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Jo has been going for just over...
0:08:03 > 0:08:05ten minutes.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Great work, Jo, keep it there.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08- Good, good, good.- Sorry...
0:08:08 > 0:08:11No, don't be sorry. That's great work, well done.
0:08:12 > 0:08:17The one thing we saw from the test is Jo is not very fit.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20But actually, the big worry is her weight.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24She's got a BMI of 41, that makes her morbidly obese.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27The weight that you carry is non-functional.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30And obviously, with walking, it's going to load the ankles,
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- the knees, the hips, the lower back.- Yeah.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36And what she's got to do, she's got to carry that weight
0:08:36 > 0:08:39throughout this challenge, hour after hour, mile after mile.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42It's like me carrying two small children on my back.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44I know, I realise that.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Jo is halfway through her first day,
0:08:51 > 0:08:55and has left civilisation - and the roads - behind.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59This is actually quite arduous terrain.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02I thought this was mainly roads today?
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Once you get clogged up,
0:09:04 > 0:09:07you end up carrying half the field with you.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11As predicted, Jo is beginning to feel the stress on her joints.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15- Walking through that field - BLEEP- my leg up massively, actually.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Here, right up there.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Going that way.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23The top of my leg's hurting.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26You know, there's nothing that can be done about it,
0:09:26 > 0:09:27it just hurts when I walk.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30But it's not a big deal, it's not absolute agony, so...
0:09:32 > 0:09:34I'm just living with it.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43To give Jo every chance of success,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46there's a medical team walking with her.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48You can see from the way she's walking,
0:09:48 > 0:09:52she's doing trick movements to try and get around it,
0:09:52 > 0:09:53to ease the pain.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56But what she's doing is causing other potential problems
0:09:56 > 0:09:59with overusing other muscles.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07Jo's injured a muscle on her hip, which is causing severe leg pain.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09No change.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12I know.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14You can see it immediately with Jo,
0:10:14 > 0:10:16because what she does, she goes very quiet.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19She goes inside herself, and that is...
0:10:19 > 0:10:21That's the way that some people deal with it,
0:10:21 > 0:10:23but the problem with that is that can't go on.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26This is day one, she's got another six days to go.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28We have to try and crack that.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Today, Jo has covered 21 miles.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Take me to A & E!
0:10:39 > 0:10:41But the final stretch has taken its toll.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- Watch is on?- Watch is off.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51- Hell of a walk though, wasn't it? - Wasn't it?
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Dot, the physio, needs to minimise the effects of the injury.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56- Happy days.- Happy days.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02This ice bath will help reduce inflammation.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06This is the best thing you need right now.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Because you would wake up stiff as a board tomorrow,
0:11:08 > 0:11:12- and you would not be interested in going for another little walk.- OK.
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Ugh!
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Jo has come a long way in a short time.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Three months ago, she couldn't even make it up a hill.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- You're working very hard, keep moving, keep squeezing.- Help!
0:11:36 > 0:11:37Not far to go now.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- Do you have any fears? - Not really, no.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43I realise that I am the sort of person that just doesn't
0:11:43 > 0:11:45think about things and I just to do them.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47I think, actually, that's quite a good strategy,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50in a way, because that's how I dealt with going into comedy.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54I just didn't think about how bad it could get until it happened.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57The reason that you do stand-up
0:11:57 > 0:12:01is that there is some emotional trauma...
0:12:01 > 0:12:04I've met a lot of stand-ups who had lost a parent
0:12:04 > 0:12:06when they were very young, for example.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08And they've toughened themselves up,
0:12:08 > 0:12:10and that's why they can do stand-up, really.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- Makes them quite robust. - It does, it really does.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Do you think you are? You're robust?
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Well, I look robust.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Yeah, I think I really am.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23I had a really, really difficult job when I was a nurse.
0:12:23 > 0:12:28A lot of violence, a lot of abuse. Just a lot of stress, really.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32You go on stage at the Comedy Store and someone goes,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35"Oh, you fat lezza", you kind of go, "Oh, yeah..."
0:12:35 > 0:12:37- You know, cos... - You've heard it before.- Exactly.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39And much, much worse.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Today's 21-mile route follows the river Ouse
0:12:51 > 0:12:53through the town of Goole...
0:12:56 > 0:12:59..the last eight miles crossing the Humberhead peatlands,
0:12:59 > 0:13:01England's biggest peat bog.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06The day's not started well.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Just an hour in, and Jo's injured leg has seized up.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Not there, no. That's fine.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- Just in there? - Yeah, it's higher up, yeah.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18The leg's bad. It's as simple as that.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21The problem is, as she walks, it gets worse and worse.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24She says it, comically, that it's OK until she walks,
0:13:24 > 0:13:26but that's absolutely true.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Fortunately, Jo does have some support -
0:13:29 > 0:13:32friend and fellow stand-up, Alan Davies.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38It says, "Goole, the UK's premier inland port."
0:13:40 > 0:13:43This is the nicest bit so far.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Yeah. Rural!
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Goole was once a thriving inland port.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55But as some ships got bigger
0:13:55 > 0:13:57and were unable to navigate the river,
0:13:57 > 0:14:00much of the trade moved on.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05- Are you all right?- Hello!
0:14:05 > 0:14:07But it's still a strong community,
0:14:07 > 0:14:09and many have turned out to meet Jo.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Something like this doesn't usually happen in Goole,
0:14:14 > 0:14:16so it's very exciting.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Thank you very much. Morning, hiya.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Welcome to Goole, I'm deputy mayor.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Oh, hello, deputy mayor, thank you very much.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25- Hello, welcome. - How are you? Thank you so much.
0:14:25 > 0:14:26How are you finding it?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28- Well, so far, it's pedestrianised. - Morning!
0:14:30 > 0:14:33With the aggravating pain in her leg,
0:14:33 > 0:14:37Jo's struggling to maintain her public face.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Nice when the members of the public drift off,
0:14:40 > 0:14:42just to give you a bit of a break,
0:14:42 > 0:14:45instead of having to talk endless bollocks at them.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50You don't talk bollocks, Jo.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52I do, to members of the public.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56You can see it now, that hobble that's coming on.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59But we've got about half a mile until our lunch stop.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Which means she'll have done 12 miles by the time we get there.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06But she's hurting, and it's going to be a long afternoon.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08I think I'm walking slowly and I look round,
0:15:08 > 0:15:10and she's about 100 yards away.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12She won't walk with me.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15She's asked me to come, and now she's basically blanking me.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17- Is she? Why? - I don't know. I've done something.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23OK. Just rest on it, and just don't swing your arms
0:15:23 > 0:15:25as if you're normally swinging your arms.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Oh, please.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30- Sorry.- OK.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33I know it's very entertaining for you, but it isn't for me.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34It's not entertaining for me, Jo.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Is she upset with you?
0:15:36 > 0:15:39No, she's just upset with everybody. She's grumpy.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41And she's grumpy - why is she grumpy?
0:15:41 > 0:15:42She's grumpy cos she's in pain,
0:15:42 > 0:15:45she's grumpy cos she's tired, and she's grumpy because she knows
0:15:45 > 0:15:48she's got a very, very long way to go.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57Do these torture scenes go down well with the general public,
0:15:57 > 0:15:59do you suppose?
0:15:59 > 0:16:00Ow!
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Yeah, fuck, that is hurty.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Ow!
0:16:08 > 0:16:10The more pain, the more money you raise.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11Is that right?
0:16:11 > 0:16:14- Is a relationship between those? - There is, seriously.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16You're joking! Really?
0:16:25 > 0:16:30I can't do this bloody... Honestly! I can't even do a coat up any more.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32What did Greg say to you just now?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37He said, "Stop being a wimp and get on with it."
0:16:37 > 0:16:38So I said, "All right."
0:16:43 > 0:16:47Turning an unfit 58-year-old into an endurance athlete
0:16:47 > 0:16:50has been quite a task for Greg.
0:16:50 > 0:16:51A week before the challenge,
0:16:51 > 0:16:54Jo meets her oldest friends Betty and Edana
0:16:54 > 0:16:56to discuss progress.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58So how did it go today?
0:16:58 > 0:16:59Well, this week,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02because it's the last proper week of training, I'm supposed
0:17:02 > 0:17:07to be doing three half-marathons - today, yesterday and the day before.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12- Oh, my God. Even just that makes me feel slightly sick.- Anyway...
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Today, I couldn't be arsed.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18So I haven't done it!
0:17:18 > 0:17:19I have another life, you know?
0:17:19 > 0:17:25And I simply couldn't afford to spend four-five hours
0:17:25 > 0:17:27for three mornings in a row.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Do you feel confident that you don't feel you need
0:17:30 > 0:17:34to follow Greg's regime?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Well, actually, I didn't do yesterday's either.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39But I haven't told him that.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41- Seriously?- I did a bit.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43What, to the toilet?
0:17:43 > 0:17:46No, I went to the shops.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Greg is going to be really upset.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56She generally jokes about smoking, about drinking
0:17:56 > 0:17:58and about being overweight.
0:17:58 > 0:17:59So, without any shadow of a doubt,
0:17:59 > 0:18:01as soon as we enter onto a serious topic,
0:18:01 > 0:18:03particularly about the challenge itself -
0:18:03 > 0:18:06not necessarily about life, but on the challenge -
0:18:06 > 0:18:08the first thing she does is make a joke.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12And I think that, for me, is a protective mechanism.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14She doesn't want to admit that she's worried,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16she doesn't want to admit that she is concerned
0:18:16 > 0:18:18about how tough this challenge is going to be.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21So the easiest way for her to do that is mask it with a joke.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Let's go through the bog in the dark.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31Hope someone get sucked into their doom.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33I'm hoping it's going to be me.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42It's 5pm, and Jo now has to across the Humberhead peatlands.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48You're all right, Jo.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51I've just been through it, I'm showing you.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52That's the worst of it.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54I know, but you've got wellingtons on.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55- I know.- I haven't.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57If you go quickly.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59I can't go quickly, sorry.
0:18:59 > 0:19:04All right, I'll just have to get my feet wet, whatever happens.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06- You should be OK.- Ugh!
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Keep going.
0:19:10 > 0:19:15Is this route deliberately designed to test our patience?
0:19:15 > 0:19:19No, this route is designed as the straightest possible route
0:19:19 > 0:19:21to reduce distance.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25- Oh, OK.- So it does feel like somebody's taking the piss.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Go right down the middle.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42It's taken Jo an hour to walk the last mile.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47This leg is absolutely killing me.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49OK.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Alan's gone ahead to meet Jo's friends Betty and Edana,
0:19:52 > 0:19:54who've come to lend their support.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55- I'm all right.- OK.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59I didn't anticipate that walking could be this slow.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03But then I've never walked across a peat bog in the dead of night.
0:20:03 > 0:20:04LAUGHTER
0:20:07 > 0:20:08Whoa...
0:20:08 > 0:20:10- Argh!- Did Jo just fall over?
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Jo did just fall over, yeah.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13Jesus Christ.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16Very, very nearly in the canal.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19That would've been the largest insurance claim
0:20:19 > 0:20:20in the history of BBC television.
0:20:20 > 0:20:25Who thinks that the object of Comic Relief films
0:20:25 > 0:20:28is to push the people that do them quite hard
0:20:28 > 0:20:30so that they have some sort of breakdown?
0:20:30 > 0:20:35Cos we all like to see someone having a cry.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37It's true, though, isn't it?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40- It is part of the human psyche. - It is.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43And apparently, the more someone cries,
0:20:43 > 0:20:45the more people donate.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48- You'd best get bloody crying then. - Yes, I bloody better.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50I'm not fucking crying!
0:20:50 > 0:20:52MOCK SOBBING
0:20:52 > 0:20:55I'm in the bog in the middle of the night and my leg's hurting,
0:20:55 > 0:20:56let me go home!
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- She sounds pissed!- Hello!
0:21:00 > 0:21:03This is so shit here.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Tell me how... This is my friends, Betty and Edana.
0:21:06 > 0:21:12Your husband has cooked you brownies, packed full of caffeine.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15There'll be laxatives and cocaine in them.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- ALAN:- You better keep going, there's five miles to go.
0:21:20 > 0:21:21Is there five miles left to go?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Oh, for fuck's sake.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26# Do you ever walk alone?
0:21:26 > 0:21:29# Do you ever walk alone?
0:21:29 > 0:21:31# Like a drifter in the dark
0:21:31 > 0:21:34# Like a drifter in the dark
0:21:34 > 0:21:37# Seeking out what isn't there
0:21:37 > 0:21:40# Seeking out what isn't there
0:21:40 > 0:21:43# Looking only for a spark... #
0:21:43 > 0:21:48It's 9pm, and after 21 miles, battling against injury,
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Jo completes her second day.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53It was just a really hard slog.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56There was a massive, dark vacuum in my head
0:21:56 > 0:21:59that smacked to me of suicide.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01And it was just really grim.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04I was soaking wet, there were members of the public there
0:22:04 > 0:22:08who were cheery and going, "It's so lovely to see you",
0:22:08 > 0:22:13and I just simply could not muster the good grace to be lovely.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16# Like a drifter in the dark. #
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Today's walk has pushed Jo to breaking point.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23But she's made the choice to walk.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Millions of women don't have that choice.
0:22:37 > 0:22:43This remote, rural health centre in Zambia serves over 7,000 people.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Many of those that use it have to walk here.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51Bridget was pregnant,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54living 12 miles from the health centre.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55IN OWN LANGUAGE:
0:23:04 > 0:23:07With no ambulance to call, Bridget gave birth at home
0:23:07 > 0:23:09and then set out for the clinic.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12But she arrived too late.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29In Zambia, less than half of women give birth in a medical centre.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33But there is hope.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Samuel is an ambulance bicycle driver,
0:23:41 > 0:23:43funded by Sport Relief.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54His job is to pick up expectant mothers
0:23:54 > 0:23:57and get them to hospital as quickly as possible.
0:24:08 > 0:24:13Bicycle ambulance drivers like Samuel save lives.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Just £30 allows Sport Relief
0:24:29 > 0:24:32to train a bicycle ambulance volunteer.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34It could make all the difference.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12When I woke up, I felt really terrible.
0:25:12 > 0:25:17And I thought, "Right, I'm going to have to go home and go to hospital."
0:25:17 > 0:25:19And once I got up, I felt fine.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22I can do another day without crying.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Ooh! That hurts though.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26- Take care, Jo.- All righty, bye!
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Bye, Bye-bye.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Considering the pain that Jo was in last night,
0:25:30 > 0:25:32this is a remarkable turnaround.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Today's route passes through the heartland
0:25:40 > 0:25:42of Britain's industrial past.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45It's a chance for Jo to visit communities that were once
0:25:45 > 0:25:48the beating heart of the British economy.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52In its heyday, this area of South Yorkshire
0:25:52 > 0:25:53had more than 40 coalmines
0:25:53 > 0:25:56powering the great steel and iron furnaces of the North.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01We've got a nice little gang, haven't we?
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Hello, mate! Aw!
0:26:04 > 0:26:08Some of the walkers joining Jo today have been part of this industry.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Hiya, Jo. My name's Bob Fitzpatrick, nice to meet you, love.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14How you doing? Nice to meet you too.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16You're a miner, are you? Or were.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20I was a miner, I got made redundant six months ago.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23What I'm interested in about mining
0:26:23 > 0:26:28is it seems the most scary, difficult job.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Once you get in with t'craic, with the lads and that,
0:26:30 > 0:26:33it's one of the best jobs you could ever have.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35The camaraderie was brilliant.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39I think that's the most important aspect of work, isn't it, really?
0:26:39 > 0:26:42How you get on with your mates and whether you have a laugh not.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46- It kept communities vibrant as well. - Yes, exactly.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49That's what we're missing up here in Yorkshire especially,
0:26:49 > 0:26:51with communities.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56I think when you lose a group of good mates
0:26:56 > 0:26:58and a spirit like that,
0:26:58 > 0:27:01it's so hard to ever replace it, really.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04All the deep mines in the UK are closed
0:27:04 > 0:27:08and unemployment is now the third-highest in the country.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11In the last two years, Sport Relief have supported
0:27:11 > 0:27:15over 250 projects in Yorkshire and Humberside alone,
0:27:15 > 0:27:19from advice and counselling services to community centres.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21And there's lots of local support.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27There's some really generous donations from people here.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32I did read some research recently that said percentage-wise,
0:27:32 > 0:27:37poorer people actually give far more,
0:27:37 > 0:27:38donate far more,
0:27:38 > 0:27:42as a relative percentage of their income
0:27:42 > 0:27:44than wealthy people do,
0:27:44 > 0:27:46which is obviously something that we always suspected -
0:27:46 > 0:27:50that wealthy people are quite mean compared to poor people.
0:27:50 > 0:27:55So really, being here just reinforces what I always thought -
0:27:55 > 0:27:58that the people who can least afford it are the most generous.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00And it's heart-warming, really.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08- Hey, Jo.- Hello there.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11- Piece of cake for you.- Oh, my word!
0:28:11 > 0:28:13- Oh, hello.- Hello!
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Crikey!
0:28:15 > 0:28:17The ladies at The Junction have prepared this cake for you.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19How fantastic.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Thank you very much.
0:28:21 > 0:28:26Joining Jo today in Hexthorpe is TV presenter Gabby Logan.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Those people are from a local church,
0:28:28 > 0:28:31and they've stopped and made coffee and tea and biscuits.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34But Greg's being a real spoilsport and he's making us go on.
0:28:34 > 0:28:38But I've stuck a Club biscuit in my pocket that he doesn't know about.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40Jo can't help herself, she just wants to chat.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Does it matter that I don't believe?
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Not at all, not at all.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Shouldn't you have had your cake first before you said that?
0:28:48 > 0:28:49And eaten it?
0:28:51 > 0:28:54- Hello.- I think you're doing brilliant.- Well, thank you.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56- You've got the support of Hexthorpe. - I appreciate it.
0:28:56 > 0:28:59I'm really flattered by that, thank you.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Hey, Jo, do you want this?
0:29:01 > 0:29:02I'd love it!
0:29:02 > 0:29:06It'll only take you six mile and then you'll need to recharge.
0:29:06 > 0:29:10Six mile would do me!
0:29:10 > 0:29:12- Keep warm. - I will, I'm going out tonight.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14- Oh, have fun!- On the razzle.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22It is certainly a way to get to know an area.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24You can't get to know it if you drive through.
0:29:24 > 0:29:29I must say, I've just been surprised by how generous
0:29:29 > 0:29:31and positive people are.
0:29:31 > 0:29:34Just thinking, a few politicians could do this,
0:29:34 > 0:29:36then they'd really discover
0:29:36 > 0:29:39what lies at the heart of England, really.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Spurred on by her supporters,
0:29:45 > 0:29:48Jo has finished her 21 miles in record time.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51- CHEERING - Welcome to Yorkshire, Jo!
0:29:51 > 0:29:55Thanks to the generosity of communities like these,
0:29:55 > 0:29:59so far, she's raised over £200,000.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10This time of day, I'm usually running around frantically
0:30:10 > 0:30:11trying to get the kids to school.
0:30:11 > 0:30:12So this is, at the moment,
0:30:12 > 0:30:15more pleasurable than what I'm used to.
0:30:15 > 0:30:17Because at least it's stress-free.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19Having said that, we are only three minutes in.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21THEY LAUGH
0:30:21 > 0:30:25Friend and comedian Lee Mack is joining Jo for the day.
0:30:25 > 0:30:30But just a few miles in, they need an emergency stop.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34- D'you think this man will let us use his toilet?- I don't know, let's ask.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36- Hello.- How are you? - I'm all right, are you?
0:30:36 > 0:30:40- This is a really cheeky question. - Yeah.- Can I have your car?
0:30:40 > 0:30:42- Can we use your toilet? Is that all right?- No problem.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45Do you mind what we do in your toilet?
0:30:45 > 0:30:46- No.- Oh, good.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48Come on. Party.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50Wipe your feet.
0:30:51 > 0:30:52D'you want to use the downstairs one?
0:30:52 > 0:30:54Yeah, why not?
0:30:54 > 0:30:55Let's bomb both of them.
0:30:55 > 0:30:59- Straight through. - Through the sliding door.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01- Did you get your teeth in in time?- Yes, I did.
0:31:03 > 0:31:05There's nothing more relaxing than going to the toilet
0:31:05 > 0:31:08knowing there's a camera crew waiting outside the door.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12- It helps me go.- I'm very grateful and very sorry at the same time.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16- I really... - She ends all of her shows like that.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20Not ticking the box of keeping going, is it?
0:31:20 > 0:31:21Bye, thanks a million.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26Today, Jo faces an energy-sapping climb
0:31:26 > 0:31:31following the Trans Pennine Trail up onto the Peak District.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37The route climbs to barren and exposed moorland.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40It's a day that Jo has been specially training for.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46Twice a week, I do a long walk,
0:31:46 > 0:31:48which includes this hill.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52It turns out that walking is in her blood.
0:31:52 > 0:31:56Well, my mum and dad met
0:31:56 > 0:32:00at the Socialist Ramblers Association.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04So we've always had a bit of a history of walking.
0:32:04 > 0:32:05So, when we were kids...
0:32:07 > 0:32:11..they did what all parents do, they make you go out for a walk
0:32:11 > 0:32:13when you don't want to.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18When I was eight, my dad and I,
0:32:18 > 0:32:21we walked up Snowdon together.
0:32:21 > 0:32:25You know, to have some time on your own with your dad
0:32:25 > 0:32:27is quite unusual, really.
0:32:29 > 0:32:34And as I got older, I didn't want to have any time on my own with him,
0:32:34 > 0:32:37so we kind of got on well when I was eight.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44My dad has always suffered from depression.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47So if I'm being honest, God bless him,
0:32:47 > 0:32:49he wasn't a laugh a minute.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52But, you know, he was our dad.
0:32:58 > 0:33:04What I quite like doing is looking back and seeing what I've done.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07But I think TV is deceptive and the viewer will think
0:33:07 > 0:33:10that doesn't look very steep, but it bloody well is!
0:33:12 > 0:33:16Jo's hill training means she's kept up a good pace today.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20But with 10 miles to go, darkness is approaching.
0:33:20 > 0:33:23When you've got light, what you do is use landmarks.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26The trouble is, along here, when it gets dark, there's nothing.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29- You are looking into the abyss. - It's that wild animal...
0:33:29 > 0:33:31You'll see later.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33It is really tough in the dark.
0:33:33 > 0:33:38As the path gets steeper, Jo begins to feel the effects.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40- Oh, I don't like heights.- Don't you?
0:33:40 > 0:33:42- No.- The uphill bit or the actual...?
0:33:42 > 0:33:44I do not like heights,
0:33:44 > 0:33:48I keep telling them...not to make me walk alongside.
0:33:48 > 0:33:52"Let's, for a laugh, put Jo next to a big drop
0:33:52 > 0:33:54"and then see what happens."
0:33:55 > 0:33:59I think it'd be fair to say Jo is probably at a bit of a low ebb.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03I've just sort of left her on her own for a while, so she can...
0:34:03 > 0:34:06There's nothing worse than making polite conversation with someone
0:34:06 > 0:34:08when you've had enough.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11So I thought it would be best to just leave her.
0:34:11 > 0:34:15I just don't like it, with the big drop over that side.
0:34:15 > 0:34:19To make things worse for Jo, the weather is closing in.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21WIND HOWLS
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Weather report. These winds are going to continue, 50mph.
0:34:24 > 0:34:29But they're actually saying, look, six inches of rain.
0:34:29 > 0:34:32We've definitely got to keep moving, there's no doubt about that,
0:34:32 > 0:34:34we can't stop in that sort of weather.
0:34:38 > 0:34:41Sorry, I'm really finding this hard.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44- NEWS:- 'Heavy rain and strong winds across the majority of Scotland,
0:34:44 > 0:34:46'northern England, Wales and Ireland.
0:34:46 > 0:34:50'Gales are also expected, with gusts up to 70mph, especially...'
0:34:52 > 0:34:55Basically, this is the storm that hit New York
0:34:55 > 0:34:58and gave them two foot of snow in a day.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01It's come across the Atlantic and since that time,
0:35:01 > 0:35:03it's turned to rain.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10The gale is forecast to worsen
0:35:10 > 0:35:14and the last section of the day is out on an exposed part of the Peaks.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16Greg makes a difficult decision.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19I'm going to make a call that we stop at the next pit stop, OK, Jo?
0:35:19 > 0:35:21If it's just me that's holding everyone up,
0:35:21 > 0:35:23I'll try and go a bit faster.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27It's got absolutely nothing to do with you and your ability.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29- It's actually about keeping people safe.- OK.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32We've only got three miles to go to complete the day
0:35:32 > 0:35:35and we're about to come onto the Peaks.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37So, fundamentally, it's about Jo's safety, really.
0:35:37 > 0:35:41We've got 40mph, 50mph gusting winds, heavy rain.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43But these conditions are just too dangerous.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50Jo's walked nearly 17 miles, most of it uphill.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52But it's been hard going.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55To lift her spirits, there's a surprise waiting for her.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Here's your surprise.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01- Hurrah!- Oi, girl. My God!
0:36:01 > 0:36:05Jo's favourite singer-songwriter, Billy Bragg.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08I found my guitar, they brought me up to sing you a song.
0:36:08 > 0:36:09What do you reckon?
0:36:17 > 0:36:19It's my favourite song.
0:36:20 > 0:36:26# It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
0:36:26 > 0:36:32# But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
0:36:32 > 0:36:38# Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
0:36:38 > 0:36:40# Over luxury's disappointment
0:36:40 > 0:36:42# So he walks over
0:36:42 > 0:36:47# And he's trying to sympathise with her
0:36:47 > 0:36:50# But he thinks that he should warn her
0:36:50 > 0:36:54# That the Third World is just around the corner... #
0:37:03 > 0:37:05The weather is going to be terrible
0:37:05 > 0:37:10and we're walking very high up, over kind of exposed land.
0:37:10 > 0:37:14Greg is very sensible, he doesn't tell me anything.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17I'm quite an emotionally blunted person, in some ways,
0:37:17 > 0:37:19and I prefer to deal with life
0:37:19 > 0:37:22by not thinking about what's going to happen,
0:37:22 > 0:37:24and it makes it much easier.
0:37:24 > 0:37:25It's like with stand-up,
0:37:25 > 0:37:28you can have some terrible experiences in stand-up,
0:37:28 > 0:37:31but I don't really think about what's going to happen
0:37:31 > 0:37:34before it happens because that just makes it worse.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37So, with this, I'm not going to think about it till it happens.
0:37:37 > 0:37:39I'm just going to deal with it.
0:37:39 > 0:37:41I don't care. It's wet - big deal.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44You know, just deal with it.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49Famous last words.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51- LAUGHTER - Famous last words.
0:37:51 > 0:37:52"Oh, Greg, oh, Greg,
0:37:52 > 0:37:55"I'm soaking wet and I'm really tired."
0:37:55 > 0:37:58- That's what I'm really going to be like.- Get on with it!
0:37:58 > 0:38:00- LAUGHING:- Exactly.
0:38:00 > 0:38:03- Were you like that before you were a stand-up?- Yeah.
0:38:03 > 0:38:04It's my dad's fault.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08My dad had a depressive illness.
0:38:08 > 0:38:11He's a kind of very interesting character, emotionally.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13And I've got a bit of that, I think.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15But I just don't think about anything.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17If I think it's going to be negative,
0:38:17 > 0:38:18I don't bother to think about.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Jo will have a lot to think about.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27Storm Jonas has hit the Peak District.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31What can I say, except it's not raining yet.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34Wahoo! It's everything else except raining.
0:38:34 > 0:38:39With countrywide flood alerts, road closures and severe gales,
0:38:39 > 0:38:41it's been dubbed
0:38:41 > 0:38:43"the storm of the century".
0:38:49 > 0:38:52Is this really necessary?
0:38:52 > 0:38:54What is this all about?!
0:38:59 > 0:39:02One of the problems travelling east-west
0:39:02 > 0:39:05is that Jo is always facing the prevailing wind.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09In these conditions, it's difficult to keep going.
0:39:10 > 0:39:14Right, finish, no more stopping. OK, she can't stop again.
0:39:14 > 0:39:16Sorry. She can't do it, yeah?
0:39:20 > 0:39:24At the top of a hill, Jo feels the full force of the storm.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28Oh, my God!
0:39:28 > 0:39:31WIND HOWLS
0:39:32 > 0:39:36Up ahead, the crew receive news of another accident.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39- There's vehicles getting blown over on the road.- Right.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42So we want to get out of this area as quickly as possible.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44- OK.- OK, so our main factor
0:39:44 > 0:39:46is the safety of Jo - simple as that, end of.
0:39:46 > 0:39:51We need to make the choice of whether we carry on whether we stop.
0:39:55 > 0:39:58They're talking about it right now in my earpiece.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01My contribution to that decision is it's game over.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04It's not about being over the top with health and safety.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07That's not my game, I want to be as adventurous as possible,
0:40:07 > 0:40:10but it gets to the line where you go too far.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14But Jo is determined to push on.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17They're talking about calling it here, Jo.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19- Uh?- Stopping you.- Yeah?
0:40:19 > 0:40:21I'm happy to walk a bit more of this.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24OK, let's get going.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26- Are you sure she's happy with that? - Definitely.
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Let me speak to the boss and we'll go from there.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30I'm all for calling it. You can see the conditions.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33- Oh!- Oh, hello, Jo's over.
0:40:36 > 0:40:41Oh, thank you. Soaking wet, now.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49- Are you all right? Are you OK? - Yeah, fine.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Jo has completed the worst section of the walk.
0:41:06 > 0:41:11But it's taken her four hours to walk just 4.6 miles.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15There are seasoned hill walkers who wouldn't have bothered doing that.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17- Oh, really?- Seriously.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19Hurrah, I'm a seasoned hill walker now!
0:41:19 > 0:41:22Well, hardly seasoned, but I've done it once.
0:41:22 > 0:41:24Look, you go and have a cup of tea,
0:41:24 > 0:41:26I'm just popping back up to have another crack.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28You're going to do it again?
0:41:32 > 0:41:35Jo's heroic efforts crossing the Peaks
0:41:35 > 0:41:36have hit the news.
0:41:36 > 0:41:38Welcome to Gamesley, Jo.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40Hi, everybody.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Hundreds of people have turned out in Gamesley.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52Thanks a lot. Cheers. Thanks for coming out.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55- THEY CHANT:- Go, Jo! Go, Jo! Go, Jo! Go, Jo!
0:41:57 > 0:42:01And there's also someone else to cheer her along.
0:42:01 > 0:42:02My word!
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Hello, you.
0:42:04 > 0:42:06I thought you might be a bit tired and need a bit of a...
0:42:06 > 0:42:09I'm very tired. How are you?
0:42:10 > 0:42:13I mean, it's quite weird being on foot as well
0:42:13 > 0:42:16- because you're so accessible. - Yes, indeed.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18Has that been rather lovely or has it been overwhelming?
0:42:18 > 0:42:21- Is the camera on? - THEY LAUGH
0:42:21 > 0:42:24- It's been really lovely. - Crikey, are we climbing over this?
0:42:24 > 0:42:28Why do we do this? Who organised this?
0:42:28 > 0:42:32Every night we have, like, the fourth trial of Hercules.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38Having conquered the Peaks, Jo has encountered another obstacle.
0:42:38 > 0:42:39A stile.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42I'm too fat to get... Oh, my God!
0:42:42 > 0:42:44- I am.- Don't be ridiculous. - You're not.
0:42:44 > 0:42:48Lift the boobs up over. Stand on there. Stand on that.
0:42:48 > 0:42:51Bollocks, Davina. What's your name?
0:42:51 > 0:42:53I'm shielding you, I'm shielding you.
0:42:53 > 0:42:54No, I'm not coming.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56Fuck off, everyone. I'm staying here.
0:42:56 > 0:42:57So, put one foot...
0:42:57 > 0:42:59I can't, because my legs won't go up the step.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01- We'll pull you.- Foot like that,
0:43:01 > 0:43:03then put the foot through there, like that.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05- I can't do that.- We'll pull you.
0:43:05 > 0:43:06You can because I'm going to get you to.
0:43:06 > 0:43:12- Yes!- Yes!- I'm too fat to get... - No, Jo.- Oh, she's through.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13She made it!
0:43:13 > 0:43:17I think Jo didn't fully expect it to be this hard.
0:43:19 > 0:43:20I want to stay here.
0:43:20 > 0:43:24She knows where the money goes, she's seen what happens
0:43:24 > 0:43:27at the projects that Sport Relief support.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29And I think somewhere in the back of your head,
0:43:29 > 0:43:33through the darkest of times, that is what gets you through.
0:43:35 > 0:43:39Davina has gone. And the mood has darkened.
0:43:39 > 0:43:42I just can't cope with it any more, I'm so stressed out.
0:43:48 > 0:43:52With several hours ahead, Greg has to make a decision.
0:43:52 > 0:43:57Hey, mate, we'll call it 9.30.
0:43:57 > 0:43:59'She's very clear in her mind
0:43:59 > 0:44:01'that she really wants to get to Liverpool,
0:44:01 > 0:44:03'but she just can't cope with anything else.
0:44:03 > 0:44:06'She is fucked. She is dead on her knees.'
0:44:06 > 0:44:10The high winds on the Peaks have taken their toll.
0:44:10 > 0:44:13She's apathetic, she's utterly fatigued.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16It's just fundamentally too much for her.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22After 13 hours on the road, Greg cuts the day short.
0:44:35 > 0:44:37But Jo's efforts are paying off.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41So far, she's raised nearly £400,000.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43I think about where the money goes
0:44:43 > 0:44:46because I think about that sort of thing quite a lot.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49And I know what a privileged little bubble I live in
0:44:49 > 0:44:52with the amount I earn and everything.
0:44:52 > 0:44:53So I am very aware of that
0:44:53 > 0:44:58and having had a relatively normal life for many years
0:44:58 > 0:45:00before I did stand-up...
0:45:00 > 0:45:01Thank you - sorry.
0:45:01 > 0:45:04'..I know a lot of people have a dreadful life compared to me
0:45:04 > 0:45:07'and I do feel terrible about that.'
0:45:09 > 0:45:12Jo worked for 10 years as a psychiatric nurse
0:45:12 > 0:45:15and her first call today is meeting Fatou,
0:45:15 > 0:45:16who has been helped
0:45:16 > 0:45:18by a Sport Relief-funded mental health charity
0:45:18 > 0:45:20called Manchester Mind.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23Fatou, very nice to meet you. How are you doing?
0:45:23 > 0:45:25- I'm really good, thank you.- Good.
0:45:25 > 0:45:29- You've had contact with Mind here, haven't you?- Yes, I have.
0:45:29 > 0:45:33- And you found them a real help? - Oh, yeah, definitely.
0:45:33 > 0:45:36They've been able to support young people such as myself
0:45:36 > 0:45:38and other people dealing with mental health.
0:45:38 > 0:45:4323-year-old Fatou suffered from depression.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47Depression just comes to you, it doesn't just ask you
0:45:47 > 0:45:49"Do you want to feel depressed today?
0:45:49 > 0:45:51"It's Tuesday, let's feel depressed."
0:45:51 > 0:45:53That's not the way it goes.
0:45:53 > 0:45:56Fatou's mother died when she was a baby.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59By the age of 18, she was alone
0:45:59 > 0:46:01and in desperate circumstances.
0:46:01 > 0:46:02It got really bad.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05I started to isolate myself, lock myself in the house,
0:46:05 > 0:46:07just be on my own.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12I went through loss. I went through loneliness,
0:46:12 > 0:46:16I went through depression, anxiety, stress.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19I went through all of it in one go.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21Contemplated, um...
0:46:23 > 0:46:26..suicide because of how I felt about myself.
0:46:29 > 0:46:30Yeah.
0:46:31 > 0:46:34- Hi, Fatou, are you OK? - Yeah, I'm all right.- Good.
0:46:36 > 0:46:39But with the help of your Sport Relief donations,
0:46:39 > 0:46:40Fatou found support.
0:46:40 > 0:46:45So, thinking about the past, Fatou, what kind of things were difficult?
0:46:45 > 0:46:50Oh, it was so bad, cos no-one could understand me.
0:46:50 > 0:46:53When I got into contact with Manchester Mind,
0:46:53 > 0:46:55things changed in a positive way.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58It was something I was embarrassed about, I must say.
0:46:58 > 0:47:02They've given me structure compared to, like, before.
0:47:02 > 0:47:07They've given me a foundation and also they've given me a future.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11It's a good thing. Yeah. A good thing.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15Do you think that young people find it's something
0:47:15 > 0:47:17- really hard to talk about?- Oh, yes.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19People feel uncomfortable, embarrassed,
0:47:19 > 0:47:21like they're going to be judged.
0:47:21 > 0:47:24I'd think a lot of people just think that it's kind of adults.
0:47:24 > 0:47:28I think these days, it's just as big an issue for young people.
0:47:28 > 0:47:32Young people, like I said, they just have the stigma with mental health.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35I think people will look at you, you're a shining example of someone
0:47:35 > 0:47:37that's worked through it
0:47:37 > 0:47:39with the help of a support group, like Mind.
0:47:39 > 0:47:41Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
0:47:41 > 0:47:45You too can give young people like Fatou a future.
0:47:45 > 0:47:49It costs just £25 for a professional counselling session.
0:48:15 > 0:48:18My poor toes. I just don't want to get any worse.
0:48:22 > 0:48:26I do just quite want to go to bed now, though.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28That ain't gonna happen.
0:48:29 > 0:48:31Jo's passed the 100 mile mark.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34But with two more days to the finish,
0:48:34 > 0:48:36she needs all the help she can get.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39# He be up yon wurzel tree and I be a'er he... #
0:48:39 > 0:48:42What is a wurzel? Is it a turnip?
0:48:42 > 0:48:45She's joined by outdoor fanatic Bill Bailey.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47This beautiful winter landscape.
0:48:49 > 0:48:53What I've done here, Jo, I've transcribed some poems
0:48:53 > 0:48:56and some inspirational walking quotes, about when you walk,
0:48:56 > 0:48:59and you get into a different, sort of, state of mind.
0:48:59 > 0:49:02You've written them down proper as well, I think that's lovely.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04This is Bill Bryson.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07"You exist in a mobile Zen mode,
0:49:07 > 0:49:11"your brain, like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying,
0:49:11 > 0:49:13"but not actually part of the body below."
0:49:13 > 0:49:15That is great.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17My brain is like a balloon.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20- It's like a balloon on a string. - Mine's popped.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23See, this is lovely, isn't it?
0:49:23 > 0:49:27I realise that I've just been sort of head down, striding,
0:49:27 > 0:49:29and not really looked at very much.
0:49:31 > 0:49:33I'm going to do my Noel Coward impersonation.
0:49:33 > 0:49:34"I like long walks,
0:49:34 > 0:49:38"especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
0:49:41 > 0:49:44Thanks to Bill, they've made good progress.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47But as darkness falls, Jo's pace slows.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Have we got to speed up?
0:49:49 > 0:49:51What we are now at is an amble,
0:49:51 > 0:49:54which is effectively what you do when you're with your children.
0:49:54 > 0:49:58# ..you shouldn't fall in love Doo-do-doo-doo... #
0:49:58 > 0:50:01To some extent, he's just distracting her from the misery.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03We've got singing...
0:50:03 > 0:50:06# Like a leper Messiah... #
0:50:06 > 0:50:08..we've had some poetry...
0:50:08 > 0:50:11A child was born with no state of mind
0:50:11 > 0:50:13Blind in the ways of mankind.
0:50:13 > 0:50:16It's a beautiful example of sort of distraction.
0:50:16 > 0:50:20But, you know, she's not hurting any less, she still wants to stop.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26I'm trying to be happy.
0:50:26 > 0:50:30It gets dark outside and in your head as well.
0:50:30 > 0:50:33And it's hard to keep your pecker up.
0:50:37 > 0:50:40- Are we having a stop-off?- Yes.
0:50:40 > 0:50:43- When is that? - The stop-off is shortly.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47When it gets dark, you've got no external stimulus,
0:50:47 > 0:50:49you can't see anything, you can't look around,
0:50:49 > 0:50:51you begin to internalise everything.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56And weird things happen. It's almost like hallucinating.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00It's at that point where I really worry.
0:51:02 > 0:51:05This walk is all hard all the time,
0:51:05 > 0:51:08and normally, I just wouldn't do stuff like this all week,
0:51:08 > 0:51:10and I am absolutely exhausted.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12And I've got myself to this state of mind
0:51:12 > 0:51:15where I just plod on like an old donkey on a wheel...
0:51:16 > 0:51:19..until someone hits me with a stick and goes, "It's over",
0:51:19 > 0:51:21or puts me down.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26Jo has slowed to a virtual standstill.
0:51:26 > 0:51:27A bit dizzy.
0:51:32 > 0:51:35Greg calls the day's walk to a halt.
0:51:35 > 0:51:37If you'd done the final 2.8,
0:51:37 > 0:51:40you simply wouldn't have been in bed until midnight,
0:51:40 > 0:51:43and that would have only given you four, four-and-a-half hours' sleep.
0:51:43 > 0:51:48Yeah. I think that might have gone horribly wrong, somehow.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51Greg's decision means that Jo will be just short
0:51:51 > 0:51:52of her full, planned distance.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54But it's not for the lack of trying.
0:51:54 > 0:51:58Well, I certainly hope I've given everything I've got
0:51:58 > 0:52:02cos that's the sort of person I am, once I put my mind to it.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04I would have hardly had any sleep.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06I'm knackered and grumpy enough as it is
0:52:06 > 0:52:07on the amount of sleep I'm getting.
0:52:07 > 0:52:11I just think, be reasonable, you know?
0:52:11 > 0:52:15And I think people will kind of understand that, really.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23- Hello.- Hello. Are you feeling well today?
0:52:23 > 0:52:25No, suicidal.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28- Oh, heck! Carry on, good luck. - Thank you.
0:52:28 > 0:52:32We're in Warrington town centre at 5.45am,
0:52:32 > 0:52:35on our way to Liverpool.
0:52:35 > 0:52:39It's the final day and Jo is up extra early.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41First six days have been about making it.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43Today, it's race day.
0:52:43 > 0:52:46She needs to arrive in Liverpool at seven o'clock
0:52:46 > 0:52:47to go live on The One Show.
0:52:48 > 0:52:52Day seven, utterly fatigued, and yet the pressure is building.
0:52:52 > 0:52:57If she makes it, she could raise substantially more money.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59There is no choice. We have to keep this pace up today.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01It's not far now.
0:53:01 > 0:53:03To have any hope of making it,
0:53:03 > 0:53:05they must hit each checkpoint on time.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10- Right, let's do this thing. - I'm coming.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14We've got to do it in under two hours into the next stop, OK?
0:53:14 > 0:53:17OK? Let's do it, come on, Jo.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19- Can I go for a wee?- Quickly.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25What else can I think up to do?
0:53:25 > 0:53:29Go, Jo! Go, Jo! Go, Jo!
0:53:29 > 0:53:32But the closer to Liverpool, the bigger the crowds.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34Let's keep moving, Jo.
0:53:36 > 0:53:39And Jo finds it difficult not to stop.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42Crikey. What an offer.
0:53:43 > 0:53:47- We've not got far to go, thank you very much.- Lovely to see you.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50Thanks, guys, thanks, guys, let's go.
0:53:50 > 0:53:51Whatever, bye.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54Time-wise, it's very tight, actually.
0:53:54 > 0:53:57I think we've got six miles to go.
0:53:57 > 0:54:01So any small delays will have a knock-on
0:54:01 > 0:54:03as to whether we pick up the pace
0:54:03 > 0:54:06or we make her run the last couple of miles.
0:54:06 > 0:54:10I think we're going to have to hope we don't have many delays.
0:54:13 > 0:54:16But it is another big night tonight, isn't it?
0:54:16 > 0:54:19Especially for comedian Jo Brand, who is hoping to complete
0:54:19 > 0:54:23her epic cross-country walk for Sport Relief tonight.
0:54:23 > 0:54:25We hear that it's going to be very close
0:54:25 > 0:54:27to her finishing on the programme.
0:54:33 > 0:54:36She's really digging in because she has to.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38For fear...fear of not making it.
0:54:39 > 0:54:42This is the fastest pace all week, and at the moment,
0:54:42 > 0:54:45we are going to be on time to the second.
0:54:45 > 0:54:47I'm not sure I can keep it up.
0:54:47 > 0:54:49CAR HORN TOOTS
0:54:49 > 0:54:54After seven days, we're asking you to squeeze every ounce out of you.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56Maybe dip for the line, I think.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58A real dip for the line.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06With her reception waiting at the Liverpool waterfront...
0:55:06 > 0:55:10We have sent one of Liverpool's most famous sons, John Bishop.
0:55:10 > 0:55:14..Jo Brand, 58-year-old comedian and mother of two,
0:55:14 > 0:55:17is on the verge of completing an epic cross-country journey.
0:55:17 > 0:55:21She's inspired thousands of people across the UK to get off their sofas
0:55:21 > 0:55:25and rise to the challenge for Sport Relief.
0:55:25 > 0:55:28A huge element of it is not wanting to let people down.
0:55:28 > 0:55:32- You're an inspiration, I'm going to start to cry.- Don't cry!
0:55:32 > 0:55:35I think people want to see a fat old woman doing well.
0:55:35 > 0:55:37Oh, yes!
0:55:37 > 0:55:40If she can do it, anyone can do it.
0:55:40 > 0:55:43Let's go live to Liverpool now. We think she's in sight.
0:55:47 > 0:55:51Here she is, coming up to the end, the finishing line.
0:55:51 > 0:55:53After a walk all the way.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58KLAXON BLARES, CHEERING
0:56:04 > 0:56:07Congratulations, Jo. How do you feel?
0:56:09 > 0:56:10Er, shattered.
0:56:10 > 0:56:15I truly really believe that Sport Relief is an organisation
0:56:15 > 0:56:17that just gives a huge amount to people
0:56:17 > 0:56:21and concentrates not only on projects in Africa,
0:56:21 > 0:56:24but projects here that mean a lot to me.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27You've seen the crowd here, you're getting a lot of support,
0:56:27 > 0:56:28what did that mean to you?
0:56:28 > 0:56:32It was so fantastic for me to walk across a massive swathe
0:56:32 > 0:56:37of the country and see just how generous and friendly
0:56:37 > 0:56:42and funny and community-minded and positive people are.
0:56:42 > 0:56:46It's overwhelming what they've been doing, it's just fantastic.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51She did it!
0:56:51 > 0:56:53I was never in doubt, to be honest with you.
0:56:53 > 0:56:59Jo Brand's Hell of a Walk has so far raised nearly £850,000.
0:56:59 > 0:57:02I honestly am so shattered now,
0:57:02 > 0:57:04I don't know quite what I'm going to do,
0:57:04 > 0:57:05but I might just sit down on the floor.
0:57:05 > 0:57:08Thanks a million, everyone, thank you.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11If you have been inspired by Jo's challenge, you can still help...
0:57:37 > 0:57:41# Now, I would walk 500 miles
0:57:41 > 0:57:44# And I would walk 500 more
0:57:44 > 0:57:49# Just be the man who walked 1,000 miles
0:57:49 > 0:57:52# To fall down at your door
0:57:52 > 0:57:54- # La-la-la-la - La-la-la-la
0:57:54 > 0:57:56- # La-la-la-la - La-la-la-la
0:57:56 > 0:57:59# La-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la... #
0:57:59 > 0:58:00Oi!
0:58:00 > 0:58:02- # La-la-la-la - La-la-la-la
0:58:02 > 0:58:04- # La-la-la-la - La-la-la-la
0:58:04 > 0:58:09# La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la! #
0:58:09 > 0:58:11CHEERING