Episodes List
Ep.1 Building a Makeshift Rucksack
Air Date: 2002-09-10
Ray dispenses knowledge on building a makeshift rucksack from natural materials such as nettle string, and advises on navigating in woods.
Ep.2 How to Harvest Food from a Hedgerow
Air Date: 2002-09-12
Ray demonstrates his skills as he dispenses knowledge on how to harvest free food from a hedgerow, including fungal 'chickens' and pignuts.
Ep.3 Lighting Fires Safely in the Wild
Air Date: 2002-09-17
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.
Ep.4 Natural First Aid Treatments
Air Date: 2002-09-24
Ray demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages.
Ep.5 Fire Harden a Digging Stick
Air Date: 2002-10-01
Ray makes a sip well, fire-hardens a digging stick, makes a bushman ostrich omelette, and goes coke can fishing. Lindsay Cannon looks at caves in the Peak District.
Ep.6 Building Snow Holes in the Cairngorms
Air Date: 2002-10-04
Ray builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand yachting in Kidwelly.
Ep.7 How to Make Woodman's Tea
Air Date: 2002-10-08
Ray 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.
Ep.8 How to Light a Life-Saving Fire
Air Date: 2002-10-11
Ray 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.
Ep.9 Building a Woodland Shelter
Air Date: 2002-10-15
Ray 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.
Ep.10 How to Cook Rabbit and Purify Water
Air Date: 2002-10-29
Ray demonstrates his skills by cooking fresh rabbit in an earth pit and purifying water with a filter made from charcoal and sphagnum moss.
