Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild - Season 6

First aired: 10/17/2017 8 episodes

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Episodes

1. Wilderness Island, Australia

Aired: 10/17/2017

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.

2. Freedom Cove, Canada

Aired: 10/24/2017

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.

3. Sahara Desert, North Africa

Aired: 10/31/2017

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.

4. New Zealand

Aired: 11/7/2017

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.

5. Andalucia, Spain

Aired: 11/14/2017

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

6. Guatemala

Aired: 11/21/2017

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.

7. Missouri

Aired: 11/28/2017

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.

8. Cambodia

Aired: 12/5/2017

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.