Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

- Season 16

(2022)

Ben enters the mountains of central Portugal to live with 39-year-old Alex, a British man who traded in his lucrative retail career for his own mountainside hideaway. He learns how Alex survived without basic amenities to create his home.

Ben ventures to the 'Emerald Isle' to visit Georg and Bettina, an elderly European couple (from Austria and Germany) who made the Irish wilderness their home nearly 40 years ago.

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 shares a home with 25 dogs, 8 donkeys, a horse, a mule and more than 20 cats.

We join Ben on the rugged cliffs of Cornwall, where he is staying with Davina and Todd and their family. Davina and Todd are a spirited couple who left the city for an empty field.

Ben journeys to one of Britain's furthest outposts - the Shetland Islands to meet Helen and Jason, a couple living on the edge of the weather-beaten island of Yell.

Ben travels to England's most northerly coastline, Northumberland, to stay with Kezz and Nathalie, a couple who gave up a rock'n'roll lifestyle to be caretakers of a secluded wood.

Ben is closer to home than he's ever been in the series as he travels to rural Oxfordshire where he spends the week with a multi-generational family, who surrendered their conventional life.

Ben Fogle meets a disabled retiree turned into a modern-day nomad who travels across the United States and uses a renovated military transport vehicle for her journey.

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In this edition, Ben heads back to the stunning Saharan landscape of Morocco, where he first met Karen, an artist who had turned her back on urban life to live in the desert.

The 16th series concludes with Ben returning to Pembrokeshire in west Wales to revisit the Watkinson family. They gave up their careers as vets to live a more environmentally friendly existence on a rugged mountainside on the coast.