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 a less-than-ordinary life in the wilderness.
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Season 1
4 episodes
Premiered Apr 22, 2013
Season 2
4 episodes
Premiered Jan 31, 2014
Season 3
4 episodes
Premiered Nov 21, 2014
Season 4
5 episodes
Premiered Jul 20, 2015
Season 5
8 episodes
Premiered Oct 25, 2016
Season 6
8 episodes
Premiered Oct 17, 2017
Season 7
4 episodes
Premiered Sep 25, 2018
Season 8
4 episodes
Premiered Jan 8, 2019
Season 9
4 episodes
Premiered Apr 16, 2019
Season 10
3 episodes
Premiered Oct 29, 2019
Season 11
5 episodes
Premiered Jan 7, 2020
Season 12
6 episodes
Premiered May 26, 2020
Season 13
5 episodes
Premiered Jan 5, 2021
Season 14
6 episodes
Premiered Feb 16, 2021
Season 15
4 episodes
Premiered Mar 30, 2021
Season 16
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 4, 2022
Season 17
12 episodes
Premiered Jan 3, 2023
Season 18
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 2, 2024
Season 19
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 8, 2025
Season 20
3 episodes
Premiered Aug 14, 2025
Season 21
6 episodes
Premiered Jan 15, 2026
Ep 1Australia
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.
Ep 2Alaska
Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to Alaska to visit a couple who hiked 4,000 miles to find a new home and lifestyle. As this incredible travel documentary reveals, they spend half the year in a mountainside yurt, then hike in the region's countryside for the next six months. Ben joins the family and learns some essential survival skills including grizzly bear protection and navigating Alaskan storms.
Ep 3New Zealand
Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to New Zealand's South Island to meet Robert and Catherine, who left a privileged lifestyle to survive as hunter-gatherers. As this intriguing travel documentary reveals, they live in an area of countryside that’s two days from the nearest road. Ben helps Robert hunt for rock lobsters and joins Catherine to climb a waterfall to fix the family's gravity-fed water pipe.
Ep 4Texas
Adventurer Ben Fogle visits John, a former fashion photographer who gave up his opulent lifestyle to move to the remote Texas countryside. In this intriguing travel documentary, John shows Ben the building made from scrap wood and iron that serves as his bedroom, as well as luxuries including a phone and freezer run from electricity generated by solar panels.
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