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Where The Wild Men Are

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Last broadcast:30/05/2023 at 10:30Genres:Travel, Documentaries
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Where The Wild Men Are

Discover why one of the world's most in-demand sporting coaches gave up everything to live like a hermit in a wooden cabin without power or water in the forests of eastern Croatia

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Season 7

Season 7, Episode 10 - New Zealand

Ben joins fellow Brit Lucy, husband Tim and their two daughters, a family who swapped their London home for a yurt on a woodland river on New Zealand's North Island.

Season 7, Episode 9 - Siberia

Maverick scientist Nikita was a former maths student living in the city, when his father asked for his help with an extraordinary experiment.

Season 7, Episode 8 - Iceland

Ben journeys to the coastal waters of Iceland to live with Hakon, a former carpenter who overcame alcohol and embraced a clean, solo life in the wilderness on a private island.

Season 7, Episode 7 - Panama

Ben meets Jaimie, an eccentric inventor originally from Vermont who lives with his family on a group of islands he has bought off the coast of Panama.

Season 7, Episode 6 - Ethiopia

Native Glaswegian Susan rejected retirement for a remote region of Africa, where she has set up both a school and a mountain-top restaurant.

Season 7, Episode 5 - Sweden

Ben travels to Sweden to meet Annalisa, the Italian chose a life on the streets of Europe as a teenager, and now is developing a forest hideaway on the fringes of Swedish society.

Season 7, Episode 4 - Sri Lanka

Ben travels to Sri Lanka where he meets Janey, a vet from the North-East of England, who runs a charitable clinic focused on helping the street dogs that roam the island.

Season 7, Episode 3 - Panama

In Boquete, in the highlands of western Panama, Ben joins Andi and Rick and their son Cole, from Oregon, USA. He learns why they left their comfortable lives in the States behind.

Season 7, Episode 2 - Morocco

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, Ben visits a mud brick oasis, where he meets British-born Karen, who has built a guest house and artists' retreat in this inhospitable location.

Season 7, Episode 1 - Peru

Scott and Casey gambled their life savings on a kite-surfing school in a remote stretch of the Peruvian coast. Ben learns what led them to this decision.
Season 6

Season 6, Episode 5 - 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.

Season 6, Episode 4 - Norway

Randi 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.

Season 6, Episode 3 - Thailand

French-Canadian Julien lives in a remote Buddhist monastery in the jungle-mountains of Thailand. Ben learns why this former student swapped his Western life for a religious life.

Season 6, Episode 2 - New Zealand

After a fateful day changed their lives, Amber and Amy packed their family onto a converted school bus touring the coastlines and mountain ranges of New Zealand's North Island.

Season 6, Episode 1 - Arkansas, USA

Ben travels to the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas to live with master craftsman Robert learning why this former medical student ditched his education for the counterculture.
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