Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild

Adventurer Ben Fogle ventures into the swampland countryside of southern Georgia to spend time with Colbert, a former financier who now lives in his hand-built wooden cabin. In this remarkable travel documentary Ben learns some of the vital skills needed to survive in this dangerous backwater, including skinning roadkill, spearing frogs and drinking swamp water.

Adventurer Ben Fogle travels deep into the foothills of the Himalayas in the Indian countryside to meet Steve, a former fighter pilot who decided he could not live in an organized society. In his remote mountain property, Ben helps Steve chase off intruders, plough the fields with a team of buffalo, tends to Steve's future grave plot, and meditates naked with him.

Ben Fogle travels to a remote part of the Philippines countryside to meet Neil, a complex man who gave up on the American Dream for a new lifestyle with his adopted family in a very alien culture. In this revealing travel documentary, he meets Neil's family, living in a bamboo house on a hillside, where he helps kill a chicken and a pig, and learns about the school run, native transport style.

Ben Fogle travels to Panama where he meets Brits Ian and Vanessa, in their small, off-grid Caribbean Island home. As this astonishing travel documentary reveals, Ian listed his 'whole life' for sale on eBay, then set off on a two-year adventure to achieve his bucket list, sold the story of his life to Disney and spent the money building a new home in the remote Panamanian countryside.

Adventure guru Ben Fogle travels to the Namibian desert and spends time with Gideon, who quit his career to live in the largest conservation area in Africa. In this revealing travel documentary, Ben embraces the harsh work of farm life in temperatures pushing 40C, tending to more than 150 animals, repairing baboon damage to water pipes and learning how to castrate sheep with his teeth.

Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the wilderness of Alaska and spends time with Mike and Fran in their simple, self-built log cabin. In this eye-opening travel documentary, Ben discovers how the couple have created a self-sufficient lifestyle by working the land and trapping animals. He also gets stuck into forest survival, battling mosquitoes, adapting to 24-hour daylight and hunting prey.