The Lakes with Paul Rose

BBC Four

1:25 AM to 1:55 AM

Tuesday 12 August

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Coniston Water isn't the biggest of Cumbria's lakes - but it's one of the most iconic and the place where Donald Campbell died trying to break the world water speed record. Paul meets Campbell's daughter Gina and crew member Robbie Robinson, who was there on the fateful day in January 1967 when Bluebird somersaulted and crashed on the water. The explorer also enters a Lakeland bike ride with a difference before ending his visit with a spot of rock climbing at Dow Crag before the ascent of one of the area's best known hills, The Old Man of Coniston