Ray Mears' Country Tracks

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  • : 10
  • : 2
  • BBC Two
  • Documentary

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Building a makeshift rucksack
Episode overview
The survival expert dispenses knowledge on building a makeshift rucksack from natural materials such as nettle string, and advises on navigating in woods
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How to harvest food from a hedgerow
Episode overview
The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he dispenses knowledge on how to harvest free food from a hedgerow, including fungal `chickens' and pignuts
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Lighting fires safely in the wild
Episode overview
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
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Natural first aid treatments
Episode overview
The survival expert demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages
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Fire harden a digging stick
Episode overview
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.
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Building snow holes in the Cairngorms
Episode overview
The survival expert builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand yachting in Kidwelly
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How to make woodman's tea
Episode overview
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
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How to light a life-saving fire
Episode overview
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
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Building a woodland shelter
Episode overview
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
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How to cook rabbit and purify water
Episode overview
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