Ray Mears' Country Tracks

  • Premiered: Sep 2002
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 2
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Unknown
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Building a makeshift rucksack
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 10, 2002
The survival expert dispenses knowledge on building a makeshift rucksack from natural materials such as nettle string, and advises on navigating in woods
1x2
How to harvest food from a hedgerow
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 12, 2002
The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he dispenses knowledge on how to harvest free food from a hedgerow, including fungal `chickens' and pignuts
1x3
Lighting fires safely in the wild
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 17, 2002
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
1x4
Natural first aid treatments
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 24, 2002
The survival expert demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages
1x5
Fire harden a digging stick
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 01, 2002
Ray makes a sip well, fire-hardens a digging stick, makes a bushman ostrich omelette, goes coke can fishing. Lindsay Cannon looks at caves in the peak district.
1x6
Building snow holes in the Cairngorms
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 04, 2002
The survival expert builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand yachting in Kidwelly
1x7
How to make woodman's tea
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 08, 2002
The survival expert 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
1x8
How to light a life-saving fire
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 2002
The survival expert 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
1x9
Building a woodland shelter
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 2002
The survival expert 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
1x10 Show finale
How to cook rabbit and purify water
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 2002
The survival expert demonstrates his skills by cooking fresh rabbit in an earth pit and purifying water with a filter made from charcoal and sphagnum moss

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