Ray Mears' threads - vaguely organised list of

[Jodie]

There are loads of threads on Ray Mears’ programmes and books and this
is an attempt to shepherd them together into one place. I think there’ll be a
fair bit of editing on this post as I’m bound to miss something! Also it’s a bit
long, so might need tweaking.

Several series have been shown on British terrestrial TV and are repeated
on Sky / NTL / Telewest channels and occasionally on Freeview (UKTV
History – channel 12).

Programmes already made
Country Tracks / Wild Tracks / Tracks / Ray Mears’ Country Tracks
(Episode listings: from Bob, Tracks series details from Fred)
World of Survival
Extreme Survival – available on DVD
Real Heroes of Telemark
Bushcraft Survival – available on DVD
(Tracklisting for World of Survival, Extreme Survival ad Bushcraft Survival
available in this post from Sandbender)

Downloadable clips from Woodlore http://www.raymears.com/
Hover over 'Downloads' then click on 'Bushcraft Survival Video 1 clips'
to see clips from Aboriginal Britain, Africa Safari and Jungle Camp.

Interview at Discovery Channel's website: watch it live or download the clip
(thanks to DZ-Y and sandbender for the links)

Interview with Libby Purves on Midweek (Wednesday, Radio 4)
The listen again function is available only for a few days so it may
not work, but this is the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml - choose "Midweek"
from the list. Thanks to Klenchblaize for highlighting it, in this thread.

Wild Food (which is NEW and will be showing on BBC2 on Thursday 4th
at 8pm - more details below).

Some clips and other stuff at the BBC's "Wild Food" page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/?id=wild_food

Also there have been a couple of one-off programmes (“The Big Read” about
Lord of the Rings and “Trips that money can’t buy” with Ewan McGregor in
Honduras) and another series “The Essential Guide to Rocks”.

BBC catalogue of TV / radio appearances here:
(Thanks to Pappa for that link, posted originally in this thread:
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=12774)

John Humphrys interviews Ray Mears about bushcraft and Paul Roseby
thinks it's all a bit daft (handbags at dawn ): Listen again
Originally posted by Scanker in this thread.

Threads about contacting the BBC (writing to the commissioning editors)
asking for them to make others series available on DVD (no luck so far).
One from CLEM: Rays Mears 1st show,World of Survival.Email the Beeb people!
One from –Switch–: Old Ray Mears series

Find more like this by searching for the word commissioning.

Example of an address to write to
I'm reluctant to post people's names (I think Dear Sir / Madam suffices)
but there are plenty of examples of names on the forum (they may no
longer be working at the BBC though).
2 entertain Video Limited
Cinema Club
33 Foley Street London
W1W 7TL
(I received a letter from them on 19 Sep 2006, saying 'no plans').

Originally, I sent my letter (as did others) to:
Commissioning Editor
BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Woodlands
80 Wood Lane
London
W12 0TT

Books already available
Many books, many formats, potential confusion, Stuart cleared it up for us here
within this thread in Bushcraft chatter: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=16705

New stuff
Threads on Wild Food, the new series with Gordon Hillman and accompanying
book. Note – the threads appear in different subsections of the forum hence
there’s a fair bit of duplication!

New TV series
A couple from Zodiak:
Ray Mears' Wild Food (Documentary) - Thursday 4th January 2007
(Forum: Lovely grub)

Ray Mears on TV During January - LOTS!!!
(Forum: Bushcraft chatter)

One from me:
Ray Mears' Wild Food (on television)
(Forum: Bushcraft and wilderness library and Media )

Showing times here from Stan Pinn's "New series of Ray" thread.

New book
New RM book from delbach (Bushcraft and wilderness library and Media)
New 'Wild Food' book by Ray Mears from fraz79 (Lovely grub)

Talk in Tunbridge Wells on photography and filming in January 07
Tickets: http://www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk/section.asp?catid=770&docid=2524
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=17233
from hammock monkey. It's sold out.

If I’ve missed your thread, or something important – let’s have it
Right... lunch time.

 

[hammock monkey]

you could add 'saturday morning cooks' from this morning, the Mears-meister trying his hand at the celebrity cooking lark. 'was sort of hoping he'd bring some ingredients and knock out a bit of interesting wild grub, but no (didnt give him the chance), just banana pudding instead made by the presenter. shame they missed the oppotunity to do something more adventurous...

 

[Jodie]

Thanks - I could but then I'd probably have to add all appearances
and I'm too lazy

Might add the Today programme link though, as I think it's still available to
listen again (from a few months ago).

Anyway, I hope the BBC eventually release older material on DVD... and
I hope this thread helps people to find all the information they'd need to
send polite and cheerful letters to the BBC suggesting same.

 

[DZ-Y]

I guess this fits right in here. There is an interview with mr. Mears viewable online on the discovery channel site at the moment

Link to interview

 

[Jodie]

That's excellent - actually I think it deserves a thread to itself as plenty
of people won't look at this and spot it (as this thread is just a metalist
of other threads really).

Thanks for posting it

 

[Jodie]

Shamelessly bumping my very own thread.

Post 1's been edited a fair bit.

 

[Beer Monster]

Thought this should probably go in here too. Discovered it today and I'm not sure if someone has posted it yet:-

Sunday Times article ....... My Hols: Ray Mears

 

[risby]

Good gollups, he's putting it about a bit these days isn't he?

He is with Jo Whiley, Radio One, from 12:00 noon tomorrow (Fri, 12.01.2006).