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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10min
September 10, 2002
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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10min
September 12, 2002
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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10min
September 17, 2002
4. Natural First Aid Treatments
Ray demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages.
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10min
September 24, 2002
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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10min
October 1, 2002
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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10min
October 4, 2002
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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10min
October 8, 2002
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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10min
October 11, 2002
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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10min
October 15, 2002
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.