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Race Across The World review: Want to win this epic race across the Far East? Then use your noodle! writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: For contestants on Race Across the World (BBC1), a translation app would be invaluable.

Live wire Alfie, 20, rushing down a Japanese city street with his best mate Owen at the outset of the new fourth series of the travel challenge show Race Across the World(BBC1), was shovelling the stringy dinner into his face. At least Stephen and Viv, described as ‘a retired husband and wife’, can be relied on not to get legless on shots of sake or walk down the road with their faces in fodder bags like cart horses. Teacher Eugenie, 61, (left) had the next best thing to an app — her 25-year-old daughter Isabel (right), who cornered people on public transport and cajoled them to teach her the language

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