Ray Mears World of Survival

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Thanks to Ian Collins for making this titles grab available. This was the first of Ray Mears’ survival programmes, after he had built his reputation on the countryside magazine series, Tracks. Many of the same production team worked on this series, including series producer, Kath Moore.

Here is the link to the Radio Times entry for the first episode of this six part series from Pebble Mill, which was transmitted in spring 1997: http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=Ray+Mears+World+of+Survival&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search

‘Tracks presenter Ray Mears makes himself at home in six of the most inhospitable places on earth and discovers how the indigenous people have survived.

Episode 1: The Arctic. Mears takes on the Arctic, which is twice as cold as the average freezer, and learns survival techniques from the Inuit.
Producer Kathryn Moore

Ray Mears’s World of Survival
8.30pm BBC2 The stakes have increased since Ray Mears appeared as the survival expert on BBC2’s outdoors programme Tracks. Now he has a whole series to investigate how to stay alive in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Most westerners would die within a matter of days, but Ray’s strategy is to learn the traditional skills of the indigenous people.
Tonight, he meets the Inuits of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. When temperatures can be as low as -40°C, the first step is to build an igloo for shelter. Beyond that, says Ray, “The secret to survival is learning how to look into the wilderness rather than just at it, and the Inuit are experts”.’

The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:

Barry Foster: ‘Dennis Jarvis was the director, Sam Cox was the sound recordist and I was the cameraman.’