

Ben Fogle follows in the footsteps of various individuals, who against all odds, have willingly forsaken the luxuries and lifestyle of the modern world, for a less-than-ordinary life in the wilderness.

Ben Fogle follows in the footsteps of various individuals, who against all odds, have willingly forsaken the luxuries and lifestyle of the modern world, for a less-than-ordinary life in the wilderness.
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Australia
S1 E1
Alaska
S1 E2
New Zealand
S1 E3
Revisit: Sri Lanka
S18 E11
Revisit: Norway
S18 E10
Revisit: Cambodia/Thailand
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Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to Restoration Island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to visit former businessman David. As this intriguing travel documentary reveals, David lost $10million in the stoc…
Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to Alaska to visit a couple who hiked 4,000 miles to find a new home and lifestyle. As this incredible travel documentary reveals, they spend half the year in a mountainsi…
Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to New Zealand's South Island to meet Robert and Catherine, who left a privileged lifestyle to survive as hunter-gatherers. As this intriguing travel documentary reveals, …
Adventurer Ben Fogle visits John, a former fashion photographer who gave up his opulent lifestyle to move to the remote Texas countryside. In this intriguing travel documentary, John shows Ben the bui…
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 …
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 remo…
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 …
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 o…
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 e…
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…
Ben Fogle travels to the countryside of Utah to meet 72-year-old twins Bill and Bob Stone, who fled their adrenaline-junkie pasts for a tough subsistence lifestyle. In this fascinating travel document…
Ben meets a 40-year-old Brit Gaynor who gave up her old lifestyle as a communications manager for a life of adventure, training huskies inside the Arctic Circle. In this intriguing travel documentary,…
Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to Southeast Asia to meet 31-year-old Jon Watkinson, who quit a career in finance for a new lifestyle in a handmade bamboo hut on a remote island in Laos. In this engrossi…
Adventurer Ben Fogle heads to Australia to meet 61-year-old Barbara Walker, a widow who has lived alone in an isolated Bush camp for eight years. In this intriguing travel documentary, he discovers ho…
Adventurer Ben Fogle ventures deep into the Appalachian Mountains to spend time with Justin, who rejected the trappings of a privileged lifestyle to live in the remote countryside. In this revealing t…
Ben Fogle heads to French Polynesia and spends time with Brit Rick and his girlfriend Jasna, who live a nomadic life on their yacht, sailing around the waters of the archipelago they have made their h…
Adventurer Ben Fogle joins Nic and Ady, who uprooted themselves from a comfortable life to live on the island of Rum in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. In this inspiring travel documentary, Ben learns how …
Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the Pacific Northwest to live with British-born Lynx Vilden. As this intriguing travel documentary reveals, this former punk-rock wild-child has spent more than half h…
Adventurer Ben Fogle heads to Tanzania, living nomadically with Brit-born Moli and his wife Noelle. As this engrossing travel documentary reveals, they swapped a city lifestyle for a vast wilderness a…
In 2015, Julia from South Africa and her British husband Gareth bought a derelict farmhouse online. They had never visited Eastern Europe before but wanted a new low-impact, self-sufficient lifestyle.…
Ben Fogle journeys into the Canadian countryside and meets Julius and Kristin in a remote mountain valley lodge. In this eye-opening travel documentary, he discovers how the former war correspondent b…
In the secluded Ibizan countryside, Ben Fogle visits a commune, the brainchild of ex-navy officer Chris. For 30 years, he has lived in the untamed heart of this Spanish island. In this revealing trave…
Ben ventures deep into the freezing tundra of Mongolia on the longest adventure he's experienced. In this intriguing travel documentary, he meets Micky and Trina, who left behind American comforts for…
Ben heads to a secret location in the USA's Appalachian Mountains to live with forest dweller, Tod and his own wild community. In this engrossing travel documentary, Ben finds out why his host strippe…
Ben is in the Moroccan countryside, near the Atlas Mountains, staying with Dina and Mostafa, who shunned the American dream to live a simple lifestyle in a mud house. In this revealing travel document…
Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to Australia's remote north-western cape and enters 'Wilderness Island' to meet a man whose story is as remarkable as the landscape he now lives in. Ben discovers how a tr…
Ben meets Jeff and Rose and their daughters who live in the vast wilderness of north-west Canada. It’s late autumn, and before long the family will be locked in by two meters of snow, in a region wher…
Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to North Africa, to live with American Maryanne Stroud Gabbani on the farm she's built on the edge of the Sahara. He discovers why she swapped her city abode for a simple…
Ben travels to New Zealand's North Island, where he meets a young nomadic family led by Amber and Andy, who spend their life exploring the country's wild landscapes. He hears how the family's lives ch…
Adventure fan Ben Fogle travels to Spain's remote Andalucía Mountains and meets British couple Alan Parks and Lorna Penfold. The couple left their careers for a lifestyle they knew nothing about and t…
Ben Fogle ventures deep into the jungles of Guatemala, once home to an ancient Mayan civilization. Mike Merrill, a former sound engineer from Texas, is building a backpacker’s hostel in this land of r…
Ben Fogle travels to the Ozark Plateau in Missouri to live with wilderness expert, Bo Brown. Bo gave up life on the road with his band to teach Stone Age skills to modern day man. Ben discovers how hi…
Ben Fogle travels to Cambodia to live with a fellow Brit who is raising his own castaway tribe on a tropical island. He joins his renegade host as he tries to defend the precious sea-life around him b…
E1 · Arkansas, USA
Ben journeys to the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas, to live with master craftsman Robert, learning why this 70-year-old former medical student ditched his education for America's counterculture 20 …
E2 · New Zealand
Ben travels to New Zealand's North Island, where he meets a young nomadic family led by Amber and Andy, who spend their life exploring the country's wild landscapes. He hears how the family's lives ch…
E3 · Thailand
Deep into the jungle mountains of Thailand on the border with Myanmar and far off any conventional map, Ben spends time with 40-year-old French-Canadian Julien. He’s been a Buddhist monk for almost ha…
E4 · Norway
In the Arctic Circle, Ben Fogle meets Randi Skaug, the first Norwegian woman to climb Everest. Ben is planning to scale the world's highest mountain himself and needs some tips and advice. He embraces…
Ben travels to the vast forests of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria to join Miriam and Peter, a couple who have chosen to live as nomads, hiking through some of the world's most striking wildernesses…
Ben visits the vast wilderness of North West Canada to meet Jeff and Rose and their five daughters, a family of adventurous off-gridders who rely on hunting big-game animals to survive.
Ben Fogle travels to Ireland’s rugged Atlantic coastline in the bleak midwinter. He stays with Judith, an 80-year-old who rejected a modern lifestyle for one closer to nature. Ben learns how she and h…
Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to Brazil to meet Chris, a Scotsman who has chosen to make his home in one of the most remote areas of the jungle near the Amazon River. He discovers how Chris’s love affa…
E1 · Peru
After six years of globetrotting, Scott and Casey gambled their life savings on a kite-surfing school in a remote stretch of the Peruvian coast. As Ben lives their day-to-day life, he learns what led …
E2 · Morocco
Ben travels to Morocco and is hosted by a couple from Kentucky. With little money left, Ben sees their struggle and plays a part in improving their chances of continuing to live a sustainable life.
E3 · Panama
Ben travels to highlands of Panama to meet a couple who turned their backs on a comfortable lifestyle in the US to try their hand at coffee producing. During the busy harvest season, Ben learns the fi…
E4 · Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, Ben meets a vet who has swapped Tyneside for the south coast of Sri Lanka, where she has opened a clinic and also runs a charity that cares for some of the island's many stray dogs.
E1 · Sweden
Ben travels to the coastal forests of southern Sweden to meet 24-year-old single mother Annalisa, a native Italian who left everything in her home country behind when she was a teenager, and is now de…
E2 · Ethiopia
Ben meets a Glaswegian retired teacher who relocated to the mountains of Ethiopia, and leads an active life in her new home as she approaches her 70th birthday. She has made significant contributions …
E3 · Panama
Ben meets Jaimie, an inventor who has built a unique home for his family on a remote island off the coast of Panama. Ben gets a taste of the unconventional family's daily routine, which includes scrub…
E1 · Iceland
Ben journeys to the freezing coastal waters of Iceland to live with Hakon, a former carpenter who overcame alcohol and embraced a clean, solo life in the wilderness on an private island.
E2 · Siberia
Ben meets a scientist in Siberia, who gave up his urban life to work in the Russian Arctic on finding ways to reduce the impact of climate change on the permafrost. His project makes use of steam mach…
E3 · New Zealand
Ben meets Lucy, who left Britain to start a new life with her husband Tim on New Zealand's north island. They now live with their two daughters in a yurt beside a river in the middle of 25 acres of wo…
E4 · Croatia
As one of the world's most in-demand sporting coaches, 43-year-old Nikola Boric once travelled the world, welcomed everywhere he went. Now, he lives in a wooden cabin without electricity, water or hea…
E5 · Oregon
Ben visits an ex-photographer who lives an isolated life in the wilds of Oregon, harvesting weeds for nutrition. There, Ben experiences a Native American-inspired sweat lodge.
While we may all feel a little isolated under the current circumstances, some people really have got away from it all, setting up home in some of the most remote locations on earth. Ben Fogle returns …
You’ll remember Colbert. He’s hard to forget. In 2014 Ben Fogle visited the eccentric 60-something who’d built his dream home (a wood cabin with no electricity and no running water) in the oppressive,…
E3 · Return to Wilderness Island, Australia
A life-threatening parachuting accident was the catalyst that persuaded Jim Alston to pursue his "Robinson Crusoe" dream, while his partner Kim Nguyen also had a near-death experience in a horrific ca…
Ben Fogle reunites with a former medical student living in the woodlands of Arkansas. Ben discovers the impact a series of injuries have had on his physically demanding wild lifestyle, including a sim…
E5 · Return to Fiji, Pacific Ocean
Ben Fogle is reunited with seafarer Rick, who has moved on to pastures new since their original encounter. When Rick last appeared on the series, he was living off the coast of French Polynesia, but h…
E6 · Return to British Columbia, Canada
Tonight it’s all wood and white water, as he returns to Canada to relive a memorable stay in bear country, with former war journalist Julius Strauss and his partner Kristin. And with such spectacular …
E1 · Wales Mountainside: The Watkins Family
Ben meets a Pembrokeshire family living on the side of a rugged mountain, where they catch and forage for their own food and salvage junk for homemade inventions. Ben helps them put their latest creat…
E2 · Iceland
Ben Fogle meets a former film-maker who has made a home in the highlands of eastern Iceland, and set up a wilderness centre exploring 200 years of local history. Ben takes part in an ancient tradition…
E3 · Northern Ireland
Ben ventures off the wild coast of Northern Ireland to the tiny, remote and rugged island of Rathlin. He stays with 41-year-old Rauri Morgan, a former HR executive who turned his back on corporate lif…
E4 · Scotland
Ben meets Jake Williams, a 70-year-old hermit living on the edge of a forest in the Cairngorms, who has made a home on the site of an ancient settlement and enjoys a diet of roadkill stir fry. Ben hel…
E5 · Ireland
Ben Fogle meets an author in Co Galway on Ireland's west coast who has turned his back on both money and technology, experimenting with living using only what he can source from the land. His frugal l…
E1 · York Farm
Ben revisits Amanda and her husband Clive, stars of Our Yorkshire Farm, on their remote farm of Ravenseat in the Yorkshire Dales. Ben discovers how they get by in the tough world of farming and meets …
E2 · Wales
Ben revisits Emma, who has embraced a truly organic life, hidden away in overgrown woodland in wildest Wales. Ben helps Emma construct a new communal mud hut.
E3 · Devon
Ben heads to Devon to revisit the Mason family who, five years ago, were all stuffed into a cramped renovated horse box. Ben is now welcomed into their new home, on their own land.
E4 · Fair Isle
Ben journeys to Fair Isle, the most remote inhabited island in the UK, where he is reunited with Tommy, an American artist who has lived in an off-the-grid stone cottage on the island for 15 years.
E5 · Exmoor
Ben revisits Simon and Debbie Dawson, who run their own off-grid smallholding in a picturesque valley in Exmoor National Park. He helps them build their new eco-home and discovers the hardships and di…
E6 · Isle of Rum
Ben visits the Goddard family, who were living a wild and weather-beaten existence in an off-grid static caravan on the Isle of Rum. 5 years on, Ben discovers them living on the mainland, having swapp…
E1 · Ullapool
The presenter ventures deep into the Scottish Highlands to meet Iona and her young family on the near-10,000-acre wilderness estate that she grew up on. Whilst in their company, Ben drives cattle on h…
The presenter meets the Powell family who are living an off-grid existence in a hidden valley in the Black Mountains in Wales. Whilst in their company, Ben climbs into a ravine to maintain the family'…
E3 · Suffolk
Ben journeys to the Suffolk countryside and a secretive patch of woodland, to spend the week with unique character Will, 50, who could be described as a true British caveman. Ben embraces Will's Stone…
E4 · Scottish Hebrides
Ben travels to a unique, tiny island in the Scottish Hebrides where he meets ex-social care worker Philip, who has embraced a new way of life in this small, alternative community. In his company, Ben …
E1 · Portugal
Ben Fogle travels to the remote mountains of central Portugal to meet Alex, a British man who left a successful retail career to live completely off-grid. During his stay, Ben helps Alex maintain his …
E2 · Ireland
Ben visits Georg and Bettina, an Austrian-German couple who have lived in the Irish wilderness for nearly 40 years. He explores the hand-built home and land they’ve cultivated from barren bog into a s…
Ben ventures to the lesser-known Greek island of Andros to visit Sandy, founder of a remote animal shelter perched on the slopes of the island's highest peak. He embraces sharing a home with 25 dogs, …
E4 · Cornwall
Ben travels to the rugged cliffs of Cornwall, where he stays with Davina and Todd and their family, who left their city lives behind to follow their dreams to become farmers. Ben finds out how the cou…
E5 · Shetland
Ben journeys to one of Britain's furthest outposts, the Shetland Islands, to meet Helen and Jason, a couple just a few years into their new life on the edge of the weather-beaten island of Yell. He di…
E6 · Northumberland
Ben travels to England's most northerly coastline, Northumberland, to stay with 43-year-old Kezz and 40-year-old Nathalie, a couple who gave up a rock'n'roll lifestyle to become caretakers of a seclud…
E7 · Oxfordshire
Ben spends time with a multi-generational family in Oxfordshire who have left their conventional life behind and relocated to an empty plot of land which they have transformed. Ben learns about the ob…
E8 · Arizona Desert
Ben travels to the deserts of Arizona to meet Dee, a modern-day nomad travelling across the United States in a former military transport vehicle which she has turned into a cosy mobile home. Ben exper…
E9 · Norway, Lynx
Adventurer Ben Fogle returns to meet previous contributors who turned their back on the rat race and set up home in some of the most remote locations on Earth. In this episode, he finds his unique for…
E10 · Morocco
Ben heads back to the Saharan landscape of Morocco, where he first met Karen, an extraordinary artist who had turned her back on urban life to live in the middle of the desert. Ben uncovers how the lo…
E11 · Pembrokeshire Coast
Ben as he revisits the Watkinson family, who gave up their careers as vets to live a greener existence on a rugged mountainside on the Pembrokeshire coast. Ben learns how the Watkinsons have used thei…
E1 · Sierra Nevada
Ben travels to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the USA to meet Mike Basich, a snowboarder who left professional sport to reconnect with nature. Ben joins him in his hand-built log cabin and follows him…
E2 · Australia - Rainforest: Bette
Ben heads Down Under to meet Bette, an elderly woman living alone in a ramshackle house in the wilds of northern Queensland. She is a no-nonsense personality and refuses to cook Ben any dinner. But as…
E3 · USA - Californian Desert: DNA
Ben heads to Slab City in California to meet an extraordinary homeless artist called DNA, who Ben had previously met whilst in the area making another documentary. Ben joins DNA in his 'Mad Max' camp …
Ben journeys to South America to visit Rhona Mitra, a British born actress who left the bright lights of Hollywood to live alone in a remote valley in Uruguay. He discovers that Rhona is now committed…
E5 · Italy – Tuscan Hills – George & Sophie
Ben heads into the heart of the Casentinesi Forest National Park in Tuscany to visit British couple George and Sophie who have breathed new life into a Tuscan farmhouse. He joins the couple and their …
E6 · Oregon River
Ben spends time with Rob, a man he previously met living in California's Slab City, and his 18-year-old son Damien, to experience what it is like to be homeless in the wild. Together, they dig a toile…
E7 · Zambia
Ben journeys into the heart of Zambia to live with a British family who have built a safari lodge on the edge of a national park. Ben uncovers what prompted this intrepid couple to start a new busines…
E8 · The Azores
Ben travels to the Azores islands, a remote archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, to meet Magnus, Lucy and one-year-old Frey. The family live in an off-grid cottage on a steep sloped mounta…
E9 · Dorset
Ben spends a week in Dorset with former paratrooper Chris who, despite losing nearly everything, has spent the last five years walking the UK's coastline. Ben joins Chris and his faithful dog companio…
E10 · Australia Revisit
Ben heads back to Western Australia to revisit 69-year-old Barbara, a Swiss woman who has lived alone in an isolated Bush camp for 16 years, and he quickly learns that the past eight years have not be…
E11 · Sweden Revisit
Ben heads back to Sweden to revisit Annalisa, a single mother who was developing a forest hideaway on the fringes of society for her and her young son. Now three years later, Annalisa has a new partne…
E12 · Bulgaria Revisit
Ben revisits nomads Miriam and Peter in the vast forests of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria, having previously met the couple in 2016. Ben joins the couple at their off-grid cottage, and hears how t…
Ben meets more people who chose to venture down alternative paths to everyday life, beginning with musician Vanessa Forero, who moved from her native Yorkshire to a remote mountainside in the Sierra N…
Ben explores the Great Blasket Island off the coast of Ireland, staying with Dan and Emily who are island caretakers on Europe's rugged western frontier. Ben discovers how the couple have adapted to t…
Ben travels to an island on Norway's coastline to meet his host Elena, a former Middle East peacekeeper, and experience the hardships of living in the environment. Ben joins Elena and her partner on a…
Ben travels to Southeast Asia, meeting entrepreneur Niall who now helps the country's street-dogs after trading in his previous career. The pair explore his self-built dog sanctuary on the island of K…
Ben heads to northern England to stay with a man who traded in his house for a life on the road, travelling the UK and joining a community of full-time nomads who survive off the grid. Ben meets Paul …
Ben visits Sri Lanka to stay with Naveen and Anke at their home in the country's highlands. They discuss why they moved away from civilisation, the struggles they had settling into their new lives and…
Ben visits the wilds of central Portugal to meet Luke and Sarah, who gave up their careers to put down roots on a deserted sheep farm. As Ben helps them clear their land, forage acorns for the pet pig…
Ben travels to the forests of Chile to meet northern Brit Scott and his young family at their hand-built off-grid cabin in the woods. He learns about the challenges they've faced in their two years of…
Ben reconnects with his old British friend Paul Ferber and his family in Thailand. He learns why they left their Cambodian island home since he last saw them, where Paul was raising his own castaway t…
Ben returns to the Arctic circle to revisit old friend, and fellow adventurer, Randi Skaug, who is living on her remote island off Norway’s northern coastline. When Ben last met Randi, he embraced lif…
Ben Fogle heads back to the jewel of the Indian Ocean to catch up with British vet Janey, who set up a rescue centre for Sri Lanka’s street-dogs. Five years on, Janey’s centre looks even more impressi…
E1 · Bulgaria
Ben meets a family at the start of their new life, undertaking an ambitious renovation of a dilapidated farmhouse in a Bulgarian village, discovering how crucial this fresh start is for them.
E2 · New South Wales
Ben heads into the forests of northern New South Wales to meet Jimmy, and learns he has faced multiple tragedies, including bereavement and natural disasters, since leaving urban America.
E3 · Italy
Ben ventures into the snowy mountains of Piedmont, where he meets Father Johannes, who lives an isolated life while fulfilling duties as a priest. Ben discovers they have more in common than he expect…
E4 · Australia
Ben embarks on an epic journey to meet one of the most remote families he's encountered, uncovering what drove academics and married couple Bec and Reece to leave civilisation for complete isolation.
E5 · New Mexico
Ben travels to the desert near Roswell, meeting 70-year-old Karen, rolling up his sleeves to help, and learning about the hardships she has faced throughout her life.
E6 · The Isle of Wight
Ben meets a family who have carved out their own slice of wilderness for a simple life on an Isle of Wight cliffside, but who have faced legal challenges and the risk of a landslide.
E7 · Utah
Ben ventures to the desolate beauty of Utah's Canyonlands, where he meets Scott, who has built his off-grid home, and witnesses Scott's remarkable resilience.
E8 · Morocco
Ben heads to the African continent to visit former army officer Mark, who, over 17 years, built a stunning home on the Moroccan coast. Ben learns of the struggles as Mark's fmaily face ever-worsening …
E9 · Spain
In Spain, Ben meets 50-year-old free spirit Nara, who has spent most of his adult life without modern conveniences. Ben learns how Nara's unconventional childhood shaped his distinctive outlook on lif…
E10 · Maine
Ben's journey takes him to an off-grid home nestled deep in the forests of Canton, Maine, where he meets Arthur, a hunter-gatherer with a PhD in botany.
E1 · Botswana
Ben meets Norwegian Aleks, who now lives in Botswana, learning of her incredible journey and meeting her adopted family, the Ju'/hoansi people, who have called southern Africa home for many thousands …
E2 · Japan
Ben meets Brit Rupert (57), who resides in a traditional house in the mountains of Japan. Rupert has fully embraced the culture of his adopted homeland but his peaceful existence arose from hardship.
E3 · Thailand
Ben journeys to rural Thailand to meet Yidan, who left city life to build a farm from scratch. As he helps her work, he uncovers the deeper reasons behind her bold transformation.
E1 · Uganda
Ben visits former war journalist Ali Porteous to find out what took his host to a remote island on Lake Victoria, learning of the events that bind her to Uganda's violent past.
E2 · Norway
Ben ventures into the forested wilderness of Scandinavia to stay with two remarkable artists, throwing himself into their world of art and nature, and tackling the physical tasks the pair now struggle…
E3 · Montana
Ben visits a remarkable homestead perched on one of the region's highest mountains, home to the Bellrose family, who have spent five years battling a brutal climate where daily life can be a matter of…
E4 · Cheshire
Ben experiences a different kind of wild living - 'continuous cruising' on a narrowboat - staying with his host Dave, whose move to an off-grid life on the canals became a lifeline after personal trag…
E5 · Tenerife
Ben Fogle heads to the island of Tenerife to visit young couple Emma and Edo, whose ambition to rescue a few horses has created a community farm and very different wild sanctuary.
E6 · Missouri
Ben Fogle meets Randilyn, a woman on a perpetual walk across the US. What began as a solitary journey with her dog has grown into a multi-wagon caravan, complete with a menagerie of animals she cares …