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12 Episodes 2023 - 2023
Episode 1
45 mins
Ben meets snowboarding legend Mike Basich who left professional sport to reconnect with nature in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Episode 2
45 mins
Ben Fogle travels to the wilds of Northern Queensland in Australia to meet Bette, who has been dealing with snakes, floods and isolation since moving to the harsh Australian wilderness 30 years ago.
Episode 3
45 mins
In this edition, Ben spends time with DNA - a homeless artist who has built himself a home made out of scrap on a desert hill in Slab City, California - an alternative lifestyle community.
Episode 4
45 mins
Ben journeys to South America to visit Rhona, a British-born actress who left Hollywood to live alone in a remote valley in Uruguay.
Episode 5
45 mins
Ben meets British couple George and Sophie who have breathed new life into a farmhouse.
Episode 6
45 mins
Ben spends time with 'Pirate' Rob, who lives for half the year with his 18-year-old son Damien in a sandbag house on an island in the middle of an industrial river in Oregon.
Episode 7
45 mins
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, overcoming fire, flooding and dangerous wildlife.
Episode 8
45 mins
Ben travels to the small and remote island of Flores in the Azores - home to Magnus, Lucy and one-year-old Frey, who live in an off-grid cottage on a steep sloped mountain.
Episode 9
45 mins
In Dorset, Ben spends a week with Chris, a former paratrooper who has spent the last five years walking the UK's coastline, finding love and raising thousands for charity.
Episode 10
45 mins
Ben returns to Western Australia to catch up with charismatic widow Barbara. Since he last saw her, there has been a serious cancer scare and a devastating bush fire.
Episode 11
45 mins
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. 3 years on from his first visit, Annalisa has a new partner and enviable homestead.
Episode 12
44 mins
Ben revisits nomads Miriam and Peter in the forests of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria, having previously met the couple in 2016. He joins them in their off-grid cottage and hears how they coped when Peter suffered acute kidney failure.