EPISODE GUIDE 

Jungle rangers
The jungle rangers of Virunga National Park have one of the toughest assignments in the whole of Africa. In the mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo, they have made it their life's work to protect the region's endangered gorillas and hippos.

They have had to contend with war, wide scale poaching, and pressure on the park’s borders from the local population. In the last 10 years more than 100 guards have been killed. Ben will join one of the Advance Forces, elite anti-poaching units formed to bring the most lawless parts of the park under control for the first time in 30 years. He will undergo specialist training, before joining the team responsible for hunting poachers. If he can earn the coveted green beret he will be able to join his crew as they enter rebel controlled territory and try and monitor the severely endangered mountain gorillas. If anyone slips up, the survival of the whole team is threatened.

Despite years of coping with little or no salaries, basic equipment and uniforms, the rangers of Virunga have remained devoted to their work and fearless in the field. They will expect the same from Ben.

Trawlermen
England's south-western tip is home to the last bastion of the nation's fishermen. Newlyn in Cornwall is England's largest fishing port and the boats that leave its shores face some of Europe's most extreme winter conditions. After a basic training course, Ben will join the five man crew of the Billy Rowney, a beam trawler which works in the treacherous Atlantic waters off the English coast. The crew have a reputation for being the toughest and hardest working out of all the Newlyn fleet. Ben will be expected to be on call for 24 hours - working as a deckhand and cook, before joining the rest of the crew in hauling and mending the nets, gutting and packing the fish, and finally manning the wheelhouse on the trip home.

In an industry where colleagues get paid for their share of the catch, their livelihoods depend on each other. The only way for Ben to become accepted is for him to pull his weight - these boats cannot afford to carry 'passengers'.