Ben Fogle: The Great African Migration

Adventurer Ben Fogle returns with this brand new 4-part one hour documentary series. To give viewers a front seat view of the great migration of Wildebeest as it occurs in the plains of Africa.Together with Dr Grant Hopcroft, the only man in the world with permission to satellite tag wildebeest, and in a captivating journey that took him one year to capture, Ben follows the epic 650km trek of the 2 million Wildebeest as they make the dramatic river crossing, migrating from the birthing plains in the Serengeti, over to the wild woodlands of the Maasai Mara, and back to the Serengeti again, all while showcasing the perilous survival that the Wildebeest have to go through across the savannahs.Along the way, Ben meets the cattle herding Maasai and the hunter-gathering Hadzabe tribe, giving his audience an all-round view of what life is like in the African plains where the migration occurs.