All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • March 27, 2016
    • BBC One

    Paul begins his journey at the training HQ in South London, where he meets his mentor, Captain Jo Moir, who teaches him the power of tea and sympathy - before he's thrown in at the deep end!

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • April 3, 2016
    • BBC One

    The presenter's work with the Salvation Army continues as he takes on the challenge of teaching some life skills by giving a group of troubled teenagers a baking lesson. He also comes to the aid of a homeless man who has finally got a roof over his head by helping him to move in, and is persuaded to perform a rap song

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • April 10, 2016
    • BBC One

    Paul O'Grady's training with the group is taken to the next level when he is faced with his biggest fear - dementia. He rolls forward the years as he dons an old-age simulation suit to see what it really feels like to be an OAP. He tries his hand at storytelling, attempting to teach a room full of children a classic parable from the Bible - what could go wrong?

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • April 17, 2016
    • BBC One

    Paul O'Grady's training goes international as he hits the front line and witnesses the migrant crisis in Athens at first hand. He gets a face-to-face meeting with the head honcho of the Salvation Army to ask him some tough questions on sexuality and helps a woman who is desperate to put food on the table for her children.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • April 24, 2016
    • BBC One

    Paul O'Grady's training with the Salvation Army takes him right back to where he first encountered them as a kid, his hometown of Liverpool, to support a woman whose drug addiction has ruined her life. He channels his inner 'Lily' to use his comedy experience to help a man who hit rock bottom and gets one last chance to find his rhythm with the Sally Army band.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • May 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Paul O'Grady takes on the final and toughest part of his Salvation Army training as he comforts those facing death at a hospice for the terminally ill. He puts on his dancing shoes for a 94-year-old lady at an exercise class for the elderly and finally gets to fulfil his childhood dream of marching with the Sally Army band down London's Oxford Street.