FORMER Blue Peter presenter Radzi Chinyanganya can be seen trying his hand at rowing on the Wye in the latest Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.

Radzi and the show called into Ross Rowing Club last summer to film a segment on the history of rowing, and had a go himself in a boat with world U23 medal cox and Oxford Boat Race Blue Morgan Baynham-Williams.

He visited the club with antiques expert Catherine Southon while taking on CBBC’s Karim Zeroual and Flog It! star Paul Martin in the hunt for the most profitable item.

Ross-on-Wye is world renowned as the birthplace of the modern tourism industry some 250 years ago, owing to rowing trips down the Wye taken by the likes of Wordsworth and Dickens.

And Radzi was welcomed to the riverside by club member Ian Hale, who told him the Ross club has existed for 150 of those years.

He revealed that a boatbuilder existed just around the bend prior to that, and people used rowing boats for trade and later pleasure, before tradespeople raced for money on the river.

Former John Kyrle student Morgan, who helped her Leander Club women’s eight to Henley Royal Regatta glory this summer, also took Radzi on a special sculling machine, where she told him "it’s a leg sport" not a pulling one.

After his quick lesson, then launched out in a double scull.

The club posted: "Great piece on Ross Rowing Club and the history of rowing as the celebrities travel from Chepstow through Wales to Ludlow.

"A warm welcome from Ian Hale and Morgan Baynham-Williams gives Radzi a lesson and takes him out in a boat, "Rowing is a leg sport."

In the show, London 2012 Olympics presenter Radzi decides to quite literally go for gold, gambling over half his budget on the precious metal.

Meanwhile, Karim hopes there’s money to be made from a 1950s stone duck and travels deep into the valleys and to the birthplace of one of Wales’s greatest composers.

Radzi and Karim’s purchases go under the gavel but there is an unwanted forfeit for the loser: a dunking in gunge.

To catch the BBC2 show on iPlayer, Series 10, Episode 12, go to www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00123r0

* Christmas comes early for rowers - page 35.