Ray Mears' Country Tracks (2002)
Synopsis
This show is series of re-edited short episodes from the Tracks (1994) and Country Tracks (1998) series. It introduces various outdoor skills, bushcraft and countryside cunning with survival expert Ray Mears.
First Air Date: 2002-09-10
Last Air Date: 2002-10-29
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 10
Networks: BBC Two
Top Cast
- Ray Mears as Self - Presenter
Seasons
Season 1 (2002)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Building a Makeshift Rucksack
Ray dispenses knowledge on building a makeshift rucksack from natural materials such as nettle string, and advises on navigating in woods.
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Ep. 2: How to Harvest Food from a Hedgerow
Ray 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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Ep. 3: Lighting Fires Safely in the Wild
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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Ep. 4: Natural First Aid Treatments
Ray demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages.
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Ep. 5: Fire Harden a Digging Stick
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.
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Ep. 6: Building Snow Holes in the Cairngorms
Ray builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand yachting in Kidwelly.
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Ep. 7: How to Make Woodman's Tea
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.
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Ep. 8: How to Light a Life-Saving Fire
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.
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Ep. 9: Building a Woodland Shelter
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.
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Ep. 10: How to Cook Rabbit and Purify Water
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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