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The Best Episodes of Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

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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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    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 18 Episode 10 - Revisit: Norway
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Revisit: Norway

    S18:E10

    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 life on the island and discovered how his host was the first Norwegian woman to climb Everest. Now, five years later Ben’s back to find out how the intermittent years have treated Randi.

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  2. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 19 Episode 3 - Italy
    9.3/10(14 votes)

    #2 - Italy

    S19:E3

    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 expected.

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  3. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 11 Episode 4 - Croatia
    9.0/10(48 votes)

    #3 - Croatia

    S11:E4

    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 heating, with just some pigs and goats for company. Experiencing Nikola's new life in the woods above the village of Kokocak on the edge of Papuk Nature Park, Ben tries to understand what drove Nikola to make a sudden decision to quit everything and retire to such a forgotten corner of the world, finding a new life of purity and self-sufficiency away from mainstream society.

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  4. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 2 Episode 2 - Himalayan Foothills
    8.8/10(34 votes)

    #4 - Himalayan Foothills

    S2:E2

    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 remote mountain property, Ben helps Steve chase off intruders, plough the fields with a team of buffalo, tends to Steve's future grave plot, and meditates naked with him.

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  5. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 12 Episode 4 - Return to Arkansas, USA
    8.8/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Return to Arkansas, USA

    S12:E4

    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 simple lapse in concentration that nearly cost him everything. However, none of this has prevented him honing his talents as a craftsman and embracing a life surrounded by nature.

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  6. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 13 Episode 4 - Scotland
    8.8/10(21 votes)

    #6 - Scotland

    S13:E4

    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 helps him with some wild gardening and gets a taste of his musical talents and mischievous sense of humour.

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  8. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 14 Episode 1 - York Farm
    8.7/10(10 votes)

    #7 - York Farm

    S14:E1

    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 the latest addition to their flock.

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  9. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 14 Episode 3 - Devon
    8.7/10(7 votes)

    #8 - Devon

    S14:E3

    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.

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  10. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 8 Episode 2 - Canada
    8.6/10(30 votes)

    #9 - Canada

    S8:E2

    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.

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  11. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 9 Episode 4 - Sri Lanka
    8.6/10(32 votes)

    #10 - Sri Lanka

    S9:E4

    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.

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  12. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 17 Episode 4 - Uruguay – Rhona Mitra
    8.6/10(29 votes)

    #11 - Uruguay – Rhona Mitra

    S17:E4

    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 to rehabilitating horses and the pair attend an animal auction looking to rescue any mistreated animals. Later that evening, Ben experiences nature's fury for himself when a violent storm hits while he shelters in a fragile biodome.

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  13. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 1 Episode 1 - Australia
    8.5/10(32 votes)

    #12 - Australia

    S1:E1

    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 stock market crash of 1987, as well as his marriage and his home. Now he lives alone on an island in a house made of recycled material and makes beer to trade with local fishermen for food.

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  14. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 14 Episode 4 - Fair Isle
    8.5/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Fair Isle

    S14:E4

    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.

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  15. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 18 Episode 1 - Columbia
    8.5/10(22 votes)

    #14 - Columbia

    S18:E1

    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 Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. Together they tackle home improvements, from a new cable car to building walls, receive a visit from an indigenous leader, and Ben hears one of the most extraordinary survival stories he has ever heard.

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  16. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 18 Episode 8 - Chile
    8.5/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Chile

    S18:E8

    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 wild living, such as freak floods, forest fires and Scott losing a finger. Ben also sees how nature offers a form of therapy to his anxiety-ridden host.

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  17. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 19 Episode 2 - New South Wales
    8.5/10(11 votes)

    #16 - New South Wales

    S19:E2

    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.

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  18. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 13 Episode 5 - Ireland
    8.4/10(21 votes)

    #17 - Ireland

    S13:E5

    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 lifestyle involves collecting water, sparse winter foraging, fishing, sheep-wrangling and writing by candle-light.

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  19. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 17 Episode 2 - Australia - Rainforest: Bette
    8.4/10(12 votes)

    #18 - Australia - Rainforest: Bette

    S17:E2

    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 the week progresses she warms to her guest and explains what drew her to the harsh Australian wilderness 30 years ago. She also talks about her complex relationship with men, and reveals how she has been seriously threatened when defending the natural world around her from development.

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  20. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 17 Episode 10 - Australia Revisit
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #19 - Australia Revisit

    S17:E10

    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 been easy. He discovers that not only has his friend had to deal with a serious cancer scare, but she came close to losing everything in a devastating fire.

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  21. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 7 Episode 4 - Norway
    8.3/10(31 votes)

    #20 - Norway

    S7:E4

    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 the tough and basic life on Randi’s 8.5-acre island by sleeping outdoors and collecting raw building materials. Ben also has a sea kayaking adventure and witnesses the Northern Lights.

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  22. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 8 Episode 1 - Bulgaria
    8.3/10(35 votes)

    #21 - Bulgaria

    S8:E1

    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. The couple have decided to live without a permanent home, carrying their only possessions on their backs. Ben helps them forage and hunt for food and even undertakes some unusual washing techniques.

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  23. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 8 Episode 3 - Ireland
    8.3/10(23 votes)

    #22 - Ireland

    S8:E3

    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 her late husband created a unique utopia and discovers how, even at an advanced age, she is determined to remain alone in her solitary cottage nestled in a remote hillside.

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  24. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 11 Episode 5 - Oregon
    8.3/10(23 votes)

    #23 - Oregon

    S11:E5

    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.

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  25. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 17 Episode 12 - Bulgaria Revisit
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #24 - Bulgaria Revisit

    S17:E12

    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 the pair had to drastically change their lives when Peter suffered acute kidney failure, and how they have adapted to their new lives as "slomads".

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  26. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 18 Episode 11 - Revisit: Sri Lanka
    8.3/10(8 votes)

    #25 - Revisit: Sri Lanka

    S18:E11

    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 impressive. The vet speaks about her new struggles, such as being left alone during the pandemic, and Ben witnesses the impact her charity is having.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Revisit: Norway" is the best rated episode of "Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/27/2024. This episode scored 0.7 points higher than the second highest rated, "Italy".