Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

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6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Friday 1 November

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Ben journeys to the wilderness of Alaska to spend time with Mike and Fran Turner and their children Cathy and Nate, who welcome him into their simple, self-built log cabin. He discovers how the couple have created a self-sufficient lifestyle by working the land and trapping animals, while battling against forest fires in the summer and freezing conditions in the winter. Ben takes every opportunity to get stuck into forest survival, as he battles mosquitoes, adapts to 24-hour daylight, chops trees and learns about trapping