Every year, BBC radio stations around the country set a goal to raise awareness and money for BBC Children in Need. This year, the challenge is for presenters to walk a collective 1,000 miles, but with a twist – they need to do it three-legged, joined to a variety of guests!
On Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 of November 2025, weather presenter Judith Ralston and sports presenter Phil Goodlad are taking on the challenge for BBC Radio Scotland. They will be joined (literally, by the legs) to a host of famous faces as well as representatives of charities who have benefitted from BBC Children in Need.
To contribute to the ambitious pan-BBC 1,000-mile target, they will be walking six three-legged miles each day, although – take a deep breath – in Scotland, they are no strangers to walking 500 miles and then 500 more.
Children in Need mascot Pudsey the bear visited Ralston and Goodlad in Glasgow for an intense training session to get them challenge-ready, where the pair were also joined by two of the famous faces taking part, writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan and BBC news correspondent Jamie McIvor, as the four of them prepared to take on the challenge.
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Ralston said of the upcoming challenge: “I am feeling apprehensive because it is an awful lot harder than I expected. I think it’s going to be very tiring. I can feel it’s physically harder than I expected. That was a big surprise to me because you just think its walking, don’t you? And I think you’re going to have to mentally be on it. You can’t take your concentration off for a second.”
As well as Meighan, the prsenter will be joined on her walk by Karen Dunbar and representatives from the charities that BBC Children in Need benefits.
Goodlad added: “Coming from my background in local radio in Shetland, the national programme was one of our biggest days of the year. There’s a real sense that everybody comes together as one to raise money. And I think it’s lovely to be able to be doing that because it is such a good cause. I think the ability to get it out there and to raise awareness, I’m really quite pleased about.”
Partner McIvor added: “There is nothing I would not do to support BBC Children in Need and this is one of the privileges of working for the BBC. I remember back to when I was a wee boy, I always gave my pocket money to BBC Children in Need. It’s also a chance to just celebrating the kindness of all the members of the public, who give selflessly.”
