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Season 1
September 10, 2002

Season 1

01. Building a Makeshift Rucksack

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

10min
September 10, 2002

02. How to Harvest Food from a Hedgerow

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

10min
September 12, 2002

03. Lighting Fires Safely in the Wild

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.

10min
September 17, 2002

04. Natural First Aid Treatments

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

10min
September 24, 2002

05. Fire Harden a Digging Stick

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.

10min
October 1, 2002

06. Building Snow Holes in the Cairngorms

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

10min
October 4, 2002

07. How to Make Woodman's Tea

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.

10min
October 8, 2002

08. How to Light a Life-Saving Fire

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.

10min
October 11, 2002

09. Building a Woodland Shelter

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.

10min
October 15, 2002

10. How to Cook Rabbit and Purify Water

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

10min
October 29, 2002