Faraway Fields

Episode one sees Cork fisherman Johnny Walsh catapulted onto a wooden boat off of the West Coast of Africa in overexploited fishing waters in Gambia. Here he navigates the precarious food supply of the community of Tanji and other coastal Gambian communities whose dwindling fish stocks forces them to take perilous sea journeys.

Farming consultant Eveline Gill swaps her job at a small tillage farm on the outskirts of Birr, Co Offaly, to work on a rice terrace in the Vietnamese village of Nam Tang.