Ray Winstone's Sicily

Internationally renowned, multi award-winning British actor Ray Winstone, whose film and television career spans four decades, is to front his first ever factual TV series Ray Winstone’s Sicily a 6 x 60’ series about the Italian island of Sicily.

Winstone has worked with Directors such as Scorsese and Spielberg as well as acting alongside Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Harrison Ford.With a reputation as a down to earth superstar, his love for his family Premier League Football Club West Ham United, is only equalled by that he has for the island he has made his second home: Sicily.

Sicily has ‘got under Winstone’s skin’ and in this series he sets out to find out why. He’ll travel the length of the island alongside long-time friend, restauranteur Bruno Zoccola, and sports broadcaster Matthew Lorenzo. With local characters and new-found friends as their guides, they make their discoveries via Sicilian homes, kitchens, churches, temples and vineyards. In a courageous move, Winstone, Zoccola, Lorenzo and crew will also visit and film from the summit of the active volcano, Mount Etna, the Aeolian island of Lipari and the historic yet frantic city of Palermo.

Genre(s)

Documentaries / Unscripted

Running Time

6 x 60' mins

Location(s)

Sicily

Status

Completed

Country

UK

Year

2019