Series 1

Ben catches up with a former businessman named Dave who was threatened with eviction from his paradise island off the coast of Australia.

Ben catches up with Bill and Bob, cave-dwelling doomsday-prepping twin brothers in an isolated home deep inside some of the world's wildest terrain.

Ben revisits Julia and Gareth who left behind a nine-to-five lifestyle in Britain to start a new life in a ramshackle farmhouse in a remote part of Hungary, a country thay had not visited and whose language they did not speak.

Ben revisits John, a former fashion photographer, who swapped New York for the scorching Texas desert. Ben discovers that John experienced a severe accident that nearly cost him everything. And Ben is reunited with Little Ben, a long horn bull who is not so little anymore.

Ben returns to India to meet a former fighter pilot who turned his back on Indian high society to live a simple life in the foothills of the Himalayas. Ben discovers that a serious motorcycle accident has hampered Steve's plans, but that his children have returned to help him preserve a small piece of paradise.