Name: Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
Released: 2013-04-22T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ben Fogle

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

Travel 2013

Available on NRK TV

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. They are educated, unemployed and homeless - and it's just the way they like it.

Travel 2013

Starring Ben Fogle

EPISODE 1

Arkansas, USA

Ben journeys to the Ozark National Forest, 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.
EPISODE 3

Thailand

French-Canadian Julien lives in a remote Buddhist monastery in the jungle-mountains of Thailand. Ben learns how and why he stripped away all complications of a life for a primitive Eastern and religious existence, and how it affected his family.
EPISODE 4

Norway

Ben ventures to the vast freezing seascape of the Arctic Circle and meets Randi. She was the first Norwegian woman to climb Everest, and now she uses her life on a remote Arctic Circle island to inspire others, including Ben.
EPISODE 1

Bulgaria

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. They are educated, unemployed and homeless - and it's just the way they like it.
EPISODE 2

Canada

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.
EPISODE 3

Ireland

Ben journeys to Ireland's rugged Atlantic coastline to stay with Judith, an 80-year-old widow who rejected a modern way of life for one closer to nature. Ben learns how Judith and her late husband created a unique utopia.
EPISODE 4

Amazon

The Amazon is where Ben's own adventures began. Now he is back to meet Chris, a Scotsman who has made his home in the most remote area of this jungle. The duo go hunting for wild pig and fishing for piranha, and visit a village Chris helped to build.

Ben Fogle

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Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

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Adventurer Ben Fogle travels around Britain to meet people who have relocated to remote parts of the UK in search of a simpler lifestyle. The presenter explores the romantic notion of living in the wild against the reality of this existence by spending time with families for a few days to experience their daily activities firsthand. Over the episodes Fogle meets an Oxford University graduate who shunned her previous life in favour of the Welsh countryside, a family who left a city home to live in a converted horsebox, and a high-flying couple who swapped modern comforts for a small-holding within Exmoor National Park.

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Studio: Channel 5
Genre: Travel
Released: 2013
Rated: A

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