SETTING THE SCENE
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The Island with Bear Grylls
2014–2019SERIES
Bear Grylls takes a group of people to a remote, uninhabited Pacific island and leaves them completely alone for six weeks with nothing more than the cameras, the clothes they wear and a few basic tools.
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THE STORY UNFOLDS
Episodes 06
EPISODE 01Episode 1
After Bear drops the men off on the island, the enormity of their task begins to dawn on them. They need to find shelter and water, and make fire, or their time on the island will be over.
May 5, 2014
EPISODE 02Episode 2
It's been 48 hours since the men had a meal and hunger grips the group. The race is on to bring food back to camp before they become too weak to hunt.
May 12, 2014
EPISODE 03Episode 3
With the men losing weight on a diet of just 300 calories a day, Ryan heads off alone in search of food. But without water, he soon finds himself lost and in imminent danger.
May 19, 2014
EPISODE 04Episode 4
Three weeks into their survival experience, the group are barely getting by on a meagre diet of snails and coconuts. Willing to take ever greater risks, Mike and Chris battle with dangerous tides.
May 26, 2014
EPISODE 05Episode 5
The men enter their fourth week of living on the island with the group hungry and divided. They elect an island leader. But will everyone back him?
Jun 2, 2014
EPISODE 06Surviving the Island
Bear Grylls visits the men at the end of their stay on the island to explore how they coped and how the experience has affected them.
Jun 2, 2014
