One man, one bike and a memorable Tour of Spain

Julián Berrendero's victory at the 1941 Vuelta a España was a memorable form of redemption through sport. The Spanish professional cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps as punishment for showing sympathy for the Republicans during the civil war. Seventy-nine years later, the perpetually over-ambitious cycling adventurer Tim Moore became fascinated with Berrendero's story and set out on a vintage racing bike littered with the great man's name to retrace the 2,700-mile trek of his triumph - and do it amid a global pandemic.

The result is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads, of glory, humiliation and much more humiliation. Along the way, Tim Moore recounts the still-living tragedies of the Civil War and encounters highly gregarious yet impressively responsible locals who are constantly torn between welcoming their country's only foreign visitor joyfully and tempting him and his dirty bike to become one vat of antiviral gel.