All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Building a makeshift rucksack

    • September 10, 2002
    • BBC Two

    The survival expert dispenses knowledge on building a makeshift rucksack from natural materials such as nettle string, and advises on navigating in woods

  • S01E02 How to harvest food from a hedgerow

    • September 12, 2002
    • BBC Two

    The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he dispenses knowledge on how to harvest free food from a hedgerow, including fungal `chickens' and pignuts

  • S01E03 Lighting fires safely in the wild

    • September 17, 2002
    • BBC Two

    Ray demonstrates essential skills for survival in the wild, including a reliable method of lighting fires safely and efficiently without the aid of matches or lighter fuel

  • S01E04 Natural first aid treatments

    • September 24, 2002
    • BBC Two

    The survival expert demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages

  • S01E05 Fire harden a digging stick

    • October 1, 2002
    • BBC Two

    Ray makes a sip well, fire-hardens a digging stick, makes a bushman ostrich omelette, goes coke can fishing. Lindsay Cannon looks at caves in the peak district.

  • S01E06 Building snow holes in the Cairngorms

    • October 4, 2002
    • BBC Two

    The survival expert builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand yachting in Kidwelly

  • S01E07 How to make woodman's tea

    • October 8, 2002
    • BBC Two

    The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he explains how to use the versatile birch tree to make a refreshing sugary drink called woodman's tea, and Lindsay Cannon enjoys a spot of mud-sliding

  • S01E08 How to light a life-saving fire

    • October 11, 2002
    • BBC Two

    The survival expert demonstrates how a stick, some moss and a bootlace can be used to light a life-saving fire, while Guy Lindley-Adams revisits his childhood with a walk along south-east England's chalk cliffs

  • S01E09 Building a woodland shelter

    • October 15, 2002
    • BBC Two

    The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he builds a woodland shelter complete with natural insulation and a bed made from a pile of twigs, and Lindsay Cannon goes `island bagging' off the Scottish coast

  • S01E10 How to cook rabbit and purify water

    • October 29, 2002
    • BBC Two

    The survival expert demonstrates his skills by cooking fresh rabbit in an earth pit and purifying water with a filter made from charcoal and sphagnum moss