How To Watch Race Across The World Season 4 Online And Stream All Episodes Now For Free From Anywhere

Contestants of the BBC's Race Across the World Season 4
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How To Watch Race Across The World Season 4 Online

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Premiered: April 10
Final: Wednesday, May 29
Channel: BBC One
Free Stream: BBC iPlayer
Watch Anywhere: Stream from anywhere with NordVPN

Watch Race Across The World Season 4: Preview

Race Across the World – the UK's answer to The Amazing Race – has a disarmingly simple premise. The first team of two to get from a starting point to the finishing line wins a prize of £20,000. Simple.

The catch is that they have to do so using only the bare essentials with no smartphones, internet, bank cards or directions. And for one unlucky team, not even a map. Oh, and the race spans 15,000 kilometres from Sapporo in Japan to Lombok in Indonesia.

It's certainly a compelling hook with the BAFTA-winning series returning for its fourth run. Starting with five teams who quickly found a home in viewers heart, relationships spanned from mother and daughter duos Sharon and Brydie and Eugenie and Isabel, to lifelong pals Alfie and Owen, siblings Betty and James, and a husband and wife Stephen and Viv.

Journeying through Japan, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia, throughout the eight hour-long episodes the leaders have been interchangeable, the budgets depleting at varying rates, and the heartwarming moments unfolding and moving audiences across each episode. And now you can watch all episodes of Race Across the World Season 4 from start to finish, including a special "Reunion" episode.

Find out all the details about the series below including how to watch Race Across The World Season 4 online and for free.

How to watch Race Across The World Season 4 online in the UK

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Race Across the World Season 4 premiered on April 10, with new episodes airing on the free-to-air channel, BBC One on every Wednesday. The final episode aired on Wednesday, May 29, with a special "Reunion" episode airing immediately after. You can find a full episode release schedule below.

If you didn't catch the season as it aired, you can now watch all episodes online via the BBC's free online streaming platform, BBC iPlayer, which you can access on desktop and through a number of devices via its app.

It's free to sign-up for a BBC iPlayer account. All you need is an email address and a UK postcode (e.g. W12 7RJ). You should also have a valid TV licence.

Away from the UK? Use a VPN using the instructions below to access BBC iPlayer like you would at home...

How to watch Race Across The World from anywhere

If you're a UK citizen on vacation or working overseas, you can still watch Race Across The World Season 4 just as you would at home. 

While BBC iPlayer is for licence fee-paying Brits and blocks access from IP addresses outside of the UK, there's a handy piece of software called a VPN which can change your IP address and help you to watch UK TV online from abroad, making it look like you're accessing streaming services from any country in the world. 

For example, UK citizens in the States can subscribe to a VPN, join a UK-based server and tune into all the programmes on BBC iPlayer from anywhere in the world, just like you would back home.

Watch Race Across the World as if you were at home with a VPN

Watch Race Across the World as if you were at home with a VPN
Of all the VPNs out there that can help change your IP address, NordVPN is the very best around for streaming. And not just BBC iPlayer, either... it's great for watching other streaming services when overseas, too. It runs on pretty much every device you can think of, has superb 24/7 customer service if you need help, and even has a 30-day money back guarantee so that you can try it out risk-free.

How To Use A VPN To Unblock Streaming Services:

1. Choose your ideal VPN and install - our go-to recommendation for unblocking is NordVPN, costing from just $3.69 a month with its 2-year plan

2. Connect to a server - for BBC iPlayer, for example, you'll want to connect to a server located in the UK

3. Stream away! - login to your streaming service – BBC iPlayer in this instance – and stream like you were in your home country

Can I watch Race Across The World Season 4 anywhere else?

Although some of the previous series of Race Across the World have found an international streaming home, it doesn't look as though Season 4 will be shown in any of the US, Canada or Australia.

So if you're a Brit abroad who's desperate to watch, then we can only suggest that you try using a VPN to avoid the geo-restrictions that the BBC iPlayer puts in place.


Race Across The World Season 4 Trailer

Race Across The World Season 4 Episodes Schedule

Who Are The Race Across The World Season 4 Contestants?

  • Alfie & Owen, Friends from St Albans
  • Eugenie & Isabel, Mother/daugher from Barking and Birmingham
  • James & Betty, Siblings from Yorkshire
  • Sharon & Byrdie, Mother/daughter from Kent – eliminated at Leg 3
  • Stephen & Viv, Married from Rutland

How Many Episodes Are There In Race Across The World Season 4?

Race Across The World Season 4 has eight episodes in total, each with a running time of one hour. An additional ninth episode aired after the final on May 29 of the cast reuniting to discuss the series.


Adam Marshall
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Adam is a freelance writer with a decade of journalism experience behind him. He's written for a broad range of publications and websites on subjects from sport (The Cricketer, Golf Monthly), TV (TechRadar, WhatToWatch, Cinema Blend) and consumer affairs (Which?), to tech (T3.com, Tom's Guide) and lifestyle (Real Homes and Creative Bloq). Cricket, cooking, crooning and keeping chickens keep him occupied when not writing.