Ben Fogle New Lives in The Wild
Ben Fogle New Lives in The Wild is a report on Channel 5. Ben Fogle travels round the world to visit people who have given up the rat race. The program has been available since 2026. A total of 121 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2026.
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1:00:00Ben Fogle New Lives in The Wild
Ben heads into the forests of New South Wales to meet Jimmy, who lives alone.
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1:00:00Ben meets a family renovating a dilapidated farmhouse in a Bulgarian village.
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Series 17
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1:00:00Ben revisits global nomads Miriam and Peter in the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria.
1:00:00In Sweden, Ben revisits Annalisa, who now has a new partner and an enviable homestead.
1:00:00Ben returns to Western Australia to catch up with charismatic widow Barbara.
1:00:00Ben spends a week with former paratrooper Chris, who has turned his damaged life around.
1:00:00On Flores in the Azores, Ben meets a family who live off-grid cottage on a steep mountain.
1:00:00In Zambia, Ben lives with a British family who have built a safari lodge.
1:00:00Ben meets Pirate Rob who lives for half the year in a sandbag house on a river.
1:00:00In Tuscany, Ben meets a British couple who have set out to live self-sufficiently.
1:00:00Ben visits Rhona, a British-born actress who left Hollywood to live alone in Uruguay.
1:00:00Ben spends time with an artist who's built a home from scrap on a Californian desert hill.
1:00:00Series 16
1:00:00Ben journeys to the Shetland Islands to meet a couple on the island of Yell.
55:00We join Ben on the cliffs of Cornwall, where he is staying with Davina and Todd.
1:00:00Ben Fogle ventures to the lesser-known Greek island of Andros to visit Sandy.
50:00Ben heads to Ireland to visit Georg and Bettina, a couple who've lived there for 40 years.