Where the Wild Men Are with Ben Fogle

After six years globetrotting, Scott and Casey gambled their life savings on a kite-surfing school in a remote stretch of the Peruvian coast.

Ben meets former Melbourne-based festival director Karen, who set up a three-acre artists' retreat in the heart of the Sahara.

The explorer travels to highlands of Panama to meet a couple who turned their backs on a comfortable lifestyle in the US to try their hand at coffee-producing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Maverick scientist Nikita was a former maths student living in the city, when his father asked for his help with an extraordinary experiment in one of the most remote places on the planet.

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.

Ben meets more couples and individuals who inhabit inhospitable parts of the world such as Peru, Morocco, Panama and Sri Lanka.

In the last of the series, Ben meets a photographer living out his childhood dream. Dan Price gave up his job as a photographer to live the remotest of lifestyles in a meadow in Oregon, USA.