Survival skills
Real Survival Stories. Highland Plunge: Unlikely Saviour on the Isle of Skye. Audio, 45 minutes
An outdoor instructor plummets into peril on the misty, mythical Isle of Skye.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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Real Survival Stories. Volcanic Deluge in the Land of Mordor. Audio, 46 minutes
In the mountains of Middle Earth, William finds himself stuck, facing doom...
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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Lives Less Ordinary. The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 2. Audio, 30 minutes
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Real Survival Stories. Earth’s Deadliest Waters: 1,000 Miles From Land. Audio, 49 minutes
With her boat breaking in two, Lisa must pull off a desperate emergency procedure.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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Lives Less Ordinary. The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 1. Audio, 42 minutes
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Real Survival Stories. Raging Rapids: Marooned in Manitoba. Audio, 53 minutes
Two young backpackers from Germany throw themselves deep into the wilds of Canada...
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Real Survival Stories. Car Stuck Off-Road: Just Like the Movies… Audio, 50 minutes
A family outing takes one wrong turn… literally.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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Real Survival Stories. Transylvania Trek: Horror Story in the Wild. Audio, 50 minutes
In 2003, a former special forces soldier journeys into the wilds of Romania...
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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Real Survival Stories. Starvation in the Outback: Aussie Bushwhacking. Audio, 47 minutes
In Australia, two friends venture deep into the bush on the lookout for a serpent...
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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Real Survival Stories. Tsunami in Sri Lanka. Audio, 48 minutes
Pat & Pete Etheridge are torn apart by one of the most terrible natural disasters...
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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- Posted21 June
Lives Less Ordinary. Kill or be killed: a climber’s dilemma, part 2. Audio, 32 minutes
Beth Rodden escaped her kidnappers, but the moment would haunt her in the years to follow
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Lives Less Ordinary. Kill or be killed: A climber’s dilemma, part 1. Audio, 33 minutes
Beth Rodden was on the expedition of her dreams in Kyrgyzstan when she was kidnapped
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Lives Less Ordinary. Lost in lion country and saved by Spam. Audio, 45 minutes
Two friends stranded in the desert, only a discarded tin held the key to their escape
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Sideways. 62. Lost and Found. Audio, 29 minutes
A 48-hour fight to survive, lost in a snowstorm. And the data that helps rescuers find us.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Drama on 4. Emergency Alert: Ballistic Missile Inbound. Audio, 44 minutes
A village in the Midlands finds itself the target of an unspecified attack from the air.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Lives Less Ordinary. Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape. Audio, 42 minutes
After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted15 January
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- Posted22 December 2023
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- Posted9 September 2023
The Documentary Podcast. BBC OS Conversations: Survival. Audio, 25 minutes
People share their stories of being lost in jungles and at sea
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted1 March 2023
Scarlett Moffatt Wants to Believe. Preparing for an apocalypse with Chloe Burrows. Audio, 31 minutes
What's in Scarlett's survival bag? Why is there a dancefloor in the bunker?
- AttributionBBC Radio 1
- Available for over a year
Business Daily. Cash in a conflict. Audio, 18 minutes
How does day-to-day survival work in a war when cash and food are in short supply?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year