Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

- Season 6

(2017)

Ben visits a remote island off Australia's north-western cape meeting a couple whose story is as remarkable as the landscape. He gets a lesson in mud-crabbing and of the urgent need for fresh water, which the island currently lacks.

Ben meets Wayne and Catherine who've built their own home floating in a Canadian bay. As the couple celebrate 30 years of marriage, Ben finds out what they endure to stay afloat.

In North Africa, Ben meets American widow Maryanne on the farm she has built on the edge of the Sahara. He discovers why she swapped her city abode for a simpler but tougher way of life in the Egyptian desert.

Ben journeys to Great Barrier Island off New Zealand's North Island where he meets another Ben, a former academic who gave up his promising scientific career to live off-grid in a secluded 76-acre forest.

Ben journeys to a remote corner of Spain's Andalusian mountains to meet a British couple who have given up their respective careers in Brighton to become alpaca farmers.

Ben discovers why Mike Merrill, a former sound engineer from Texas, decided to build a backpackers hostel deep in the Guatemalan jungle and gets stuck into some building projects.

Ben travels to the Ozark Plateau in the U.S. state of Missouri to live with wilderness expert Bo, who gave up a life on the road with his bluegrass band to teach other people survival skills.

Ben travels to Cambodia to meet a fellow Brit who is raising his own castaway tribe on a tropical island. Ben learns how fragile life is for the family on this tiny island.