DVD cover illustrating Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
Created by
Ewan McGregor Charley Boorman David Alexanian Russ Malkin
Starring
Ewan McGregor Charley Boorman
Country of origin
United Kingdom
No. of episodes
7 (10 ep. extended broadcast)
Production
Cinematography
Claudio von Planta Jimmy Simak
Running time
42 minutes (per episode / approx.)
Original release
Network
Sky 1
Release
18 October 2004 (2004-10-18) – 1 February 2005 (2005-02-01)
Related
Race to Dakar Long Way Down By Any Means Long Way Up
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Long Way Round
Author
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
Cover artist
Julian Broad (photo) and Duncan Spilling (design)
Genre
Travelogue
Publisher
Atria Books
Publication date
2 November 2004
Media type
Hardback
Pages
320
ISBN
0-7434-9933-6
Followed by
Long Way Down
Long Way Round (LWR) is a British television series and book documenting the 19,000-mile (31,000 km) journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from London to New York City on motorcycles. They travelled eastwards through Europe and Asia, flew to Alaska, and continued by road to New York. The series aired on Sky One from 18 October 2004 – 1 February 2005 and was repeated on BBC Two in 2008. The series was added to Apple TV+ on 18 September 2020, along with sequels Long Way Down
(2007) and Long Way Up (2020).
LongWayRound (LWR) is a British television series and book documenting the 19,000-mile (31,000 km) journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from...
States. It is a follow-up to 2004's LongWayRound where the pair rode from London to New York, and to 2007's LongWay Down, when they rode from John o'...
Europe and Africa to Cape Town in South Africa. It is a follow-up to the LongWayRound of 2004, when the pair rode east from London to New York via Eurasia...
made three long-distance motorcycle rides with his friend Ewan McGregor, documented in LongWayRound (2004), LongWay Down (2007), and LongWay Up (2020)...
2020 series LongWay Up. McGregor is involved in charity work, including UNICEF UK since 2004 and GO Campaign. During the LongWayRound journey in 2004...
song by Eagle-Eye Cherry, from the album Living in the Present Future LongWayRound, a British television series and book documenting Ewan McGregor and...
their LongWayRound motorcycle journey eastward from London to New York in 2004, LongWay Down from Scotland to South Africa in 2007, and LongWay Up from...
the Dakar Rally, which he had discussed with the publishers of the LongWayRound book. Having publicly committed to it, Boorman felt he had to do the...
original tour guide soundtrack has been made available. In the documentary LongWayRound, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman stop to see this church. Dan Cruickshank...
He is known for the adventure travel documentaries LongWayRound, LongWay Down, and LongWay Up with actors and motorcyclists Ewan McGregor and Charley...
founded there in 1986.[citation needed] The town was a focal point of the LongWayRound TV series of a motorcycle journey made by Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman...
A LongWay Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's...
ISBN 978-0-7603-3603-8 McGregor, Ewan; Boorman, Charley; Uhlig, Robert (2005), LongWayRound: Chasing Shadows Across the World, Simon & Schuster, pp. 234–296, ISBN 0-7434-9934-4...
American director and producer. In 2004, Alexanian directed and produced LongWayRound, which followed Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on a 20,000-mile (32...
Asia, and Alaska, and the Adventure was in the book and TV series, LongWayRound. In 2007, the same pair used R1200GS Adventure BMWs for a sequel trip...
in the book and TV series LongWayRound. The R1150GS's successor, the R1200GS Adventure was used in the follow-up LongWay Down trip. It was also ridden...
(11 January 2015). "Second comings: the artists who found success the longwayround". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 November 2021. "Prasanna Puwanarajah"....
soundtrack for Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman’s BBC series' LongWayRound and LongWay Down as well as NBC's short-lived action drama series, The Philanthropist...
being used by actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman in their journey LongWayRound. It was a major sales coup for BMW as the duo had initially approached...
Herefordshire, the Black Country, Birmingham to mean "the longwayround", in the same way that "round the houses" is used more widely. "To all friends around...
Portmarnock. Kingford Press. ISBN 0951156519. Bull, John (August 2014). "The LongWayRound: The Plane that Accidentally Circumnavigated the World". Lapsed Historian...
Productions, a production company known for producing travel series LongWayRound and LongWay Down. Mulligan also worked as an assistant director on EastEnders...
LCCN 91017701. Hardesty 2003, pp. 37–41 Bull, John (August 2014). "The LongWayRound: The Plane that Accidentally Circumnavigated the World". Lapsed Historian...