Where the Wild Men Are with Ben Fogle

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.

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 documentary, he joins the brothers as they go cattle-wrangling, rock climbing and skydiving, while Ben also discovers why these former bounty hunters decided to cut themselves off from civilization.

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, he joins Gaynor in her hand-built cabin, which has neither electricity nor running water, and meets her 40 Alaskan huskies. They then embark on a tough trek, driving dogs through the icy wilderness.

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 engrossing travel documentary, Ben digs trenches, attempts an extreme form of fishing and helps his host to lift and move an entire house. He also discovers how the locals have taken Jon to their hearts.

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 how this former photographer adopted a new lifestyle in one of the world's most challenging environments, managing 63 wild horses and hand-rearing rescued animals in the remote countryside.

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 travel documentary, he discovers how Justin's life in the wild began with a grueling 2,000-mile trek to his home, where he has no electricity or running water and all his meals are fresh roadkill.

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 home. In this rugged travel documentary, Ben builds hammocks, rigs sails, spears fish for dinner, experiences rough seas and learns how the couple use the islands to support their transient lifestyle.

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 they survive such a challenging lifestyle, helps them tend their animals, farm their vegetable patch and dig the foundations for what they hope will be their future home in the remote countryside.