Ben Fogle

Ben’s documentary on Noma will be broadcast at 9pm on BBC2 on the 9th June and again at 7pm on the 14th June. For more information on the subject go to the Facing Africa website.

Filmed on the location of the BBC’s, ‘Victorian Farm’ at Acton Scott in Shropshire, Escape In Time followed the experience of 8 families as they became Victorian Farmers for a week. The twenty part series follows the families and a team of historians and experts as they experience life on the Victorian Farm. Due to air in 2010.

Ben is heading off to Ethiopia with the charity facing Africa to make a BBC documentary about the disease Noma. Due to be aired in 2010.

Ben is to present a new BBC sunday morning show, Country Tracks. The programme will revisit many of the locations explored by Countryfile over the years and promises to be a celebration of our unique and diverse countryside. Ben, sadly will be leaving Countryfile, but is looking forward to working on this exciting new series which will fill the Sunday 11am slot vacated by Countryfile.

The third part of the hit series will be on BBC 2 at 18.30 every evening from 1st January 2009. The series involves a journey from the Equator in Ecaudor to the Tropic of Capricorn in Chile. Ben helps teams of unsung hero’s , from Fireman and doctors to Paralympic athletes and Naval Officers, across some of the world’s toughest environments