Tuesday television radio

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9pm, Channel 5

The presenter heads Down Under to meet Bette, an elderly woman living alone in a ramshackle house in the wilds of northern Queensland. She is a no-nonsense personality and rather splendidly refuses to cook the presenter

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9pm, Channel 5

Fogle journeys into the heart of Zambia this week to live with a British family who have built a safari lodge on the edge of a national park. He uncovers what prompted this intrepid couple to start a new business and a family in the unforgiving bush, and learns how they have had to overcome fire and flooding to keep their African dream alive.

CRITIC’S CHOICE

Gerard Gilbert

any dinner. But as the week progresses, she warms to her guest and explains what drew her to the harsh Australian wilderness 30 years ago. She also talks about her complex relationship with men and reveals how she has been seriously threatened when defending the natural world around her from development.

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9pm, Channel 5

Fogle begins a new run of his series in which he meets people who have embraced remote, off-grid lives. He travels to the Sierra Nevada mountains in California to meet Mike Basich, a snowboarder who left the world of professional sport behind to reconnect with nature and pursue a quieter life. Basich took 20 years to hand-build his log cabin amid 80 acres of forest, gaining a wife and two young sons in the process.

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Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild 9pm, Channel 5

Fogle heads to Slab City in California – an old US Army base that is now home to off-grid communities of squatters, anarchists and other societal outsiders – to meet a homeless artist called DNA. Like most residents in Slab City, he discovers that DNA had few choices, the presenter learning the harsh reality of what it’s like to be homeless in America.