The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

Just watched the episode of the journey from Pretoria to Durban. Wonderful scenery and photography. Zero points for mispronunciation of most of the place names. Try harder Mr Nighy; you have won awards for acting so there is NO excuse! Surely someone local could have helped you with the sound. And if not, get someone to dub the voice-over.

It appears that the Narrator (Bill Nighy) was provided with no guidance on pronunciation of place names in the New Zealand episode and no review of the narration was done by anyone with knowledge of New Zealand. Mountain and region names are almost incomprehensible for New Zealanders or those with knowledge of New Zealand. The episode is an embarrassment for this accomplished actor and questions regarding the production crew.

The episode could benefit from re-recording of the narration and leaves question marks regarding pronunciation in other episodes in the series.

Given the narrative structure of the trip is from North to South the editing has resulted in some notable moments that are clearly out of chronological order.

Pity Bill wasn't actually on any of the trains, he may have given Portillo a run, but sitting in a studio, mispronouncing place names doesn't cut it, very disappointing 😓😓

Sat down to watch the Pretoria to Durban rail journey with Rovos. The programme kicked off with horrible, over-dramtic background music, and never stopped. I could only watch 20 minutes. Why do programme makers do this? It just detracts from the scenry and commentary. Silence is good!

The scenery is very interesting but Bill Nighy's torpid narration is better than a bottle of sleeping tablets. He sounds bored, mostly. Droning on, and on.

Hardly changes his delivery at all - Ho hum I hope they get someone else soon.