Taking a Walk on the Wildside with Ben

Broadcaster and adventurer Ben Fogle is about to tackle his latest walk on the wild side with a new tour full of hair-raising and uplifting stories from a life of amazing encounters. Best known from hit shows including Animal Park, Lost Worlds and New Lives In The Wild, the popular presenter will bring his new live tour BEN FOGLE – WILD to 22 towns and cities across the UK in Spring 2023.

BEN FOGLE – WILD will see Ben sharing stories of hope, possibility and positivity, all learned from his extraordinary encounters around the world. Ben Fogle’s career has taken him to some of the most extreme locations in the world, whether filming for documentaries or tackling some of mankind’s greatest physical challenges.

In BEN FOGLE – WILD, Ben will take audiences on a new journey to relive the inspiring and uplifting tales he has encountered along the way – in environments as diverse as the wilderness of northern Sweden, the jungles of Honduras, the hostility of Chernobyl and the mountains of Nepal. The brand-new show promises to be hair-raising, uplifting and wildly entertaining, as Ben shares the amazing encounters he’s had with people and animals around the world, and how they have changed his life. Speaking about his new tour, Ben Fogle said, “Adventures, expeditions and journeys have helped shape and mould me. They have strengthened me emotionally, physically and mentally and armed me with the skills for life.

“I’m looking forward to sharing some of those skills and life lessons, as well as the stories of the incredible people and animals I’ve met along the way, when I get out on the road with WILD.

“It could be my biggest adventure yet!”

Ben Fogle is an award-winning broadcaster and adventurer – currently on screens in Lost Worlds With Ben Fogle on Channel 5 – who has scaled Mount Everest, rowed the Atlantic and raced across Antarctica.

He is also a Sunday Times bestselling author who has written more than 15 books and is the United Nations Patron Of The Wilderness, a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, an ambassador to WWF, Tusk and Hearing Dogs For The Deaf, and patron of The Red Cross.

On Thursday 11th May the Suffolk Book League welcomes Hannah Lowe, author of The Kids (2021) which won the Costa Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her collection of poems was inspired by her time working with sixth formers in London. She drew on her father’s Chinese-Jamaican heritage in her collections Chick (2013), Chan (2016) and in her memoir Long Time No See (2015). Hannah has a Masters in Refugee Studies, researching into the historicising of the Empire Windrush and post-war Caribbean migration to Britain. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and lectures at Brunel University. The Society of Authors gave her the Cholmondeley Award and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Doors open at the Ipswich Institute Reading Room & Library 15 Tavern Street IP1 3AA at 7pm with the event starting at 7.30. Tickets, £5 for Suffolk Book League members, £10 for non-members can be obtained via the League’s website www.suffolkbookleague.org