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

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The Worst 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 Namibia
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    #1 - 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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    #2 - Alaska

    S3:E2

    Ben is no stranger to remote parts, but this trip to Alaska will test him to the limit. His only access to his hostsʼ home is via bush plane. If he were to walk, the journey would take ten days and would take him right through grizzly bear country. Ben joins married couple Mike and Fran Turner, who welcome him into their simple, self-built log cabin. He discovers how they have created a self-sufficient lifestyle by working the land and trapping the animals around them.

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    #3 - Utah

    S3:E3

    Bill and Bob Stone are twin brothers aged 72 who fled their adrenaline-junkie pasts for a tough subsistence lifestyle hidden away in Americaʼs Wild West. In this unforgiving landscape, even with one of them recovering from a stroke, they carve out an existence and fight the challenges associated with growing old. Ben joins these canyon-dwelling renegades in their remote, isolated home, deep inside some of the worldʼs most striking and wild terrain.

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    #4 - Swedish Arctic Circle

    S3:E4

    Ben journeys to the frozen north to live with 40-year-old Gaynor Leeper, a former high-flying London communications manager who gave up her old life to become an Arctic dog musher. Ben joins Gaynor and her new husband Milos in their hand-built cabin, which has neither electricity nor running water. He also meets the coupleʼs ʻfamilyʼ of 40 Alaskan huskies.

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    #5 - Pacific Northwest

    S5:E1

    Ben journeys to the Pacific Northwest to live with former punk wild-child Lynx who lives, hunts, eats and sleeps in the wilderness.

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    #6 - Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

    S5:E2

    Ben Fogle meets a husband and wife who gave up the city rat race to live as safari guides in an unexplored Tanzanian national park.

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    #7 - Gadacs, Hungary

    S5:E3

    Ben joins a couple beginning a new life in rural Hungary.

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    #8 - The Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

    S5:E4

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    #9 - Ibiza

    S5:E5

    Ben travels to Ibiza to meet a former merchant sailor.

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    #10 - Khatgal, Outer Mongolia

    S5:E6

    Ben meets Micky and Trina Cofer, who along with their four children, left behind the comforts of America to become missionaries in the freezing tundra of Outer Mongolia. In temperatures of below minus 20, Ben builds his own ger (yurt) to sleep in, uses a freezing outhouse, attempts ice-fishing, joins a wolf-hunt and learns how to wrestle.

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    #11 - Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina

    S5:E7

    Ben travels to a secret location in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, where forest dweller Tod Kershaw lives in a primitive skills community who have chosen not to live as members of modern society, but as opportunistic outsiders who scavenge other peoples' waste.

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    #12 - Morocco, Atlas Mountains

    S5:E8

    Dina Zughyar and Mostafa Jabbour turned their back on the American Dream to start from scratch with a handful of rabbits and chickens on a small patch of barren land in the shadow of the Atlas Mountains. In their mud house in Morocco, the couple confess to Ben that it has been much harder than they thought...

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    #13 - Wilderness Island, Australia

    S6:E1

    Ben travels to an island off Australia's north-western cape to meet two people who were compelled to turn their backs on their former lifestyles after going through similar, tragic experiences.

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    #14 - Freedom Cove, Canada

    S6:E2

    Ben meets a couple who have made their home on a floating island they have built themselves which sits in the aptly named Freedom Cove on Canada's west coast.

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    #15 - Sahara Desert, North Africa

    S6:E3

    Ben journeys to North Africa, to live with American widow Maryanne on the farm she's built on the edge of the Sahara. He discovers why she swapped her city abode for a simpler and tougher way of life in the Egyptian desert.

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    #16 - New Zealand

    S6:E4

    Ben travels to an island off the New Zealand coast to meet a man who gave up a career in medicine to live off-grid.

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    #17 - Andalucia, Spain

    S6:E5

    In a remote part of Andalucia in Spain, Ben meets a couple from Brighton who gave up their careers to breed alpacas.

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    #18 - Guatemala

    S6:E6

    Ben discovers why Mike Merrill, a former sound engineer from Texas, decided to build a backpackers hostel deep in the Guatemalan jungle. He also gets stuck into building projects, machete fishing and tubing a dangerous river to transport vital supplies, and sees how Mike interacts with the local Mayan people.

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    #19 - Missouri

    S6:E7

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

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    #20 - Cambodia

    S6:E8

    Ben travels to Cambodia to live with a fellow Brit who is raising his own castaway tribe on a tropical island. Ben sleeps in a hammock, drinks rainwater and experiences how fragile life is for this family on their tiny island.

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    #21 - Arkansas, USA

    S7:E1

    Ben journeys to the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas, to live with master craftsman Robert, learning why this 70-year-old former medical student ditched his education for America's counterculture 20 years ago, bought 200 acres of land deep in the woods, and raised a family of six children. Ben sees how far-reaching Robert's skills are, including cabin-making techniques dating back to the 13th century, and how his family have supported him in his dream.

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    #22 - New Zealand

    S7:E2

    Ben travels to New Zealand's North Island, where he meets a young nomadic family led by Amber and Andy, who spend their life exploring the country's wild landscapes. He hears how the family's lives changed forever after one fateful day, how they swapped the stress of the city for a life on the open road, the price they paid for chasing their dream and how the horrors of the past still haunt them today

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    #23 - Thailand

    S7:E3

    French-Canadian Julien lives in a remote Buddhist monastery in the jungle-mountains of Thailand, far off any conventional map. Ben learns how and why this former teenage student from the West stripped away all complications of a modern life for a primitive Eastern and religious existence, and how this choice affected his family.

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    #24 - 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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    #25 - Sweden

    S10:E1

    Ben travels to the coastal forests of southern Sweden to meet 24-year-old single mother Annalisa, a native Italian who left everything in her home country behind when she was a teenager, and is now developing a forest hideaway on the fringes of society for her and her toddler. Ben helps her chop wood and make her home baby-proof, while Annalisa goes busking to make a small living. They also go dumpster-diving in search of rubbish that can be put to good use to counter the amount of waste thrown away.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Namibia" is the worst rated episode of "Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/21/2014. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Alaska".