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Ray Mears' Country Tracks·BBC Two

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1 season · 10 eps

Season 1

S1 · E1 10 min

Building a Makeshift Rucksack Episode 1

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

S1 · E2 10 min

How to Harvest Food from a Hedgerow Episode 2

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

S1 · E3 10 min

Lighting Fires Safely in the Wild Episode 3

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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.

S1 · E4 10 min

Natural First Aid Treatments Episode 4

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

S1 · E5 10 min

Fire Harden a Digging Stick Episode 5

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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.

S1 · E6 10 min

Building Snow Holes in the Cairngorms Episode 6

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

S1 · E7 10 min

How to Make Woodman's Tea Episode 7

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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.

S1 · E8 10 min

How to Light a Life-Saving Fire Episode 8

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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.

S1 · E9 10 min

Building a Woodland Shelter Episode 9

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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.

S1 · E10 10 min

How to Cook Rabbit and Purify Water Episode 10

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Ray 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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