All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Epic Journey

    • September 21, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Survival expert Ray Mears parachutes into Norway on the 60th anniversary of the wartime mission made famous by Hollywood movie The Heroes of Telemark. He retraces the original journey with a team of winter warfare specialists in an attempt to demonstrate the appalling hardships the commandos had to endure on their mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb project

  • S01E02 Survival in the Wilds

    • BBC Two

    Survival expert Ray Mears travels to Scotland and Norway to examine how a team of elite commandos were trained to survive in the wild in preparation for a mission to destroy a key part of Hitler's atomic bomb project

  • S01E03 Heavy Water

    • BBC Two

    How survival skills helped the Allies stop Hitler's atomic bomb programme, featuring first-hand accounts from veterans of the Telemark raid, who also reveal how they wish to be remembered