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The Best Episodes of Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild

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The Best Episodes of Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild

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...
  1. Background image for Revisit Mayo County
    9.1/10(11 votes)

    #1 - Revisit Mayo County

    S19:E3

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  2. Background image for Croatia
    9.0/10(48 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Return to Arkansas, USA
    8.8/10(6 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Scotland
    8.8/10(21 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Himalayan Foothills
    8.7/10(33 votes)

    #5 - Himalayan Foothills

    S2:E2

    Ben journeys to the foothills of the Indian Himalayas to live with former fighter pilot, 69- year-old Steve Lall. Steve turned his back on high society, instead opting for a simple farmer’s life in the mountains. He has fought for decades to protect his tiny private wilderness. Ben joins this mountain-dwelling renegade and his family in their remote, isolated home, a steep 2km climb from the nearest road. He gets hands-on with their harsh subsistence lifestyle, from ploughing with buffalo, chasing monkeys and human intruders, to the more surreal grave digging and naked meditation. Ben discovers that the hardships of this remote location are also the key to its beauty.

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    8.6/10(31 votes)

    #6 - Australia

    S1:E1

    Ben travels to a remote island to live with a former Sydney businessman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.6/10(30 votes)

    #7 - 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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    8.5/10(31 votes)

    #8 - Sri Lanka

    S9:E4

    Ben meets a 30-year-old British vet who swapped her job in Newcastle to provide medical care to some of the island's three million street dogs.

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  10. Background image for York Farm
    8.5/10(9 votes)

    #9 - York Farm

    S14:E1

    Ben revisits Amanda Owen and her family at their remote farm of Ravenseat in the Yorkshire Dales, who have gone on to star in Our Yorkshire Farm since he first met them. Ben discovers how they get by in the tough world of farming and meeting the latest addition to their flock.

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    8.5/10(7 votes)

    #10 - 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 who has lived in an off-the-grid stone cottage for 15 years. Tommy reflects on how recent world events have led to the island becoming even more isolated than previously, reveals how he copes with turbulent weather, and invites Ben to join him in painting the rugged landscape.

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  12. Background image for Uruguay – Rhona Mitra
    8.5/10(26 votes)

    #11 - Uruguay – Rhona Mitra

    S17:E4

    Watch as Ben Fogle journeys to South America to visit Rhona, a British born actress who left the bright lights of Hollywood to live alone in a remote valley in Uruguay. Ben is instantly intrigued by the juxtaposition in lifestyle and learns that ill health, a difficult childhood and disillusionment with Tinseltown culture have all led to his host's new life.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Revisit Portugal
    8.5/10(10 votes)

    #12 - Revisit Portugal

    S19:E2

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  14. Background image for Ireland
    8.4/10(21 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Devon
    8.4/10(6 votes)

    #14 - Devon

    S14:E3

    Ben meets a family that has created a new home in the Devon countryside - but having had to fight to be allowed to build on the land, they now find peace hard to adjust to. Nevertheless, they continue in their drive to be as self-sufficient as possible. However, Ben spots a new development in their lives that could present them with their next big challenge.

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  16. Background image for Bulgaria Revisit
    8.4/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Bulgaria Revisit

    S17:E12

    Join Ben as he revisits global nomads Miriam and Peter in the vast forests of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria. In 2016, the couple walked the length of New Zealand and Ben then found them on an intrepid journey across South-Eastern Europe. He joined them as they left one camp to hike to another, their entire world in their backpacks, foraging and hunting as they went, sometimes travelling up to 25km a day. Now, four years later, he finds them back in Bulgaria, but living in an off-grid cottage. He discovers that disaster struck while they were walking Australia and the couple had to radically change their life.

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  17. Background image for Bulgaria
    8.3/10(34 votes)

    #16 - Bulgaria

    S8:E1

    Ben travels to the vast forests of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria to join Miriam and her husband Peter, a couple who have chosen life as nomads, hiking through some of the world's most striking wildernesses.

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  18. Background image for Oregon
    8.3/10(23 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for Norway
    8.2/10(31 votes)

    #18 - Norway

    S7:E4

    Norway In the Arctic Circle, the explorer meets Randi, the first Norwegian woman to climb Everest ahead of his own bid to scale the world's highest mountain. He embraces the tough and basic life on her 8.5 acre island by sleeping outdoors, and collecting raw building materials. Ben also experiences sea kayaking, and witnesses the northern lights.

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  20. Background image for Ireland
    8.2/10(23 votes)

    #19 - Ireland

    S8:E3

    Ben journeys to Ireland to meet a widow that rejected a modern way of life.

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  21. Background image for Return to New Zealand
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #20 - Return to New Zealand

    S12:E1

    While we may all feel a little isolated under the current circumstances, some people really have got away from it all, setting up home in some of the most remote locations on earth. Ben Fogle returns to see how some of them have fared, starting with the Long family in New Zealand. You may remember they were two days’ walk from the nearest road, so it was very much a hunter-gatherer existence. “Bewitching, but horribly tough – like camping for ever” is how RT described it. So how have the children coped with such an isolated upbringing, and how have the parents maintained their relationship? SUMMARY Ben reunites with people he previously met in some of the most remote locations on Earth, discovering how life has changed for his hosts.

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  22. Background image for Australia - Rainforest: Bette
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. Background image for Dorset
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #22 - Dorset

    S17:E9

    Ben joins Chris, a former paratrooper, in the beautiful county of Dorset on the south coast of England. Ben spends a week with Chris who, despite losing nearly everything, has spent the last five years walking the UK's coastline. Ben discovers what has motivated Chris and how he has turned his life around, found love and raised thousands for charity. Ben join Chris and his faithful dog companion, Jet, 27,000 miles into their walk where they've now hit the Jurassic Coast. And they're no longer alone – Chris met his partner, fellow hiker Kate and now they are parents to baby Magnus. Ben learns what Chris calls "the art" of living wild on the road, once as a solo experience, but now with a young family. He learns how to desalinate sea water and forage the nature around him, embraces river washing and charming local fisherman for food, while beginning to understand what it's like to "wild parent" and where this intrepid family are heading next.

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  24. Background image for Columbia
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    #23 - Columbia

    S18:E1

    Adventurer Ben visits musician Vanessa Forero, and finds out what took her from her native Yorkshire to life on a remote South American mountainside.

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  25. Background image for New Zealand
    8.0/10(28 votes)

    #24 - New Zealand

    S1:E3

    Ben travels to New Zealand and meets hunter-gatherers.

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  26. Background image for Namibia
    8.0/10(22 votes)

    #25 - Namibia

    S3:E1

    Ben heads to Africa and the deep desert sand dunes of Namibia. He lives with 50-year-old Gideon David and his young family in the largest conservation area on the continent. Gideon is a master bushman who quit a city career in life insurance for the dry and dusty desert.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Revisit Mayo County" is the best rated episode of "Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild". It scored 9.1/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/30/2024. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Croatia".