New Zealand Listener

Wednesday October 25

Documentary: BEN FOGLE: LOST WORLDS

This is not unlike series such as in which skateboarder Rick McCrankfeaturing largescale engineering projects now in ruins. Ben Fogle explores long-forgotten places and landscapes and also communities that have remained outside the mainstream. A community in the Californian desert has lived outside society for more than 60 years; a cluster of abandoned Scottish islands that is overlooked by spirit guardians and populated by feral cattle; and an active volcano on Montserrat in the Caribbean that’s surrounded by an eerie exclusion zone.

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