Season 1

1. Building a Makeshift Rucksack

2002-09-10 · 10m

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

2. How to Harvest Food from a Hedgerow

2002-09-12 · 10m

Ray demonstrates his skills as he dispenses knowledge on how to harvest free food from a hedgerow, including fungal 'chickens' and pignuts.

3. Lighting Fires Safely in the Wild

2002-09-17 · 10m

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.

4. Natural First Aid Treatments

2002-09-24 · 10m

Ray demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages.

5. Fire Harden a Digging Stick

2002-10-01 · 10m

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.

6. Building Snow Holes in the Cairngorms

2002-10-04 · 10m

Ray builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand yachting in Kidwelly.

7. How to Make Woodman's Tea

2002-10-08 · 10m

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.

8. How to Light a Life-Saving Fire

2002-10-11 · 10m

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.

9. Building a Woodland Shelter

2002-10-15 · 10m

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.

10. How to Cook Rabbit and Purify Water

2002-10-29 · 10m

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