You Vs the World: The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up

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I’ve always loved bringing my sons up to embrace risk, embrace danger. I want them to become ninjas at handling everything.” What I meant by the improvisation was, whether Bear fell off the log or not, or whether he made it across on the vine, we didn’t know which way was going to be right and which was going to be wrong until after he did it. So then we’d say, “Okay, that worked, so this moves us on to the next obstacle.” Or, “Shoot, that really screwed up. This is a dead end for the viewer.”

We knew you should probably not go out on that ice. Bear was like, “If you crawled, you’d be alright, but I wouldn’t walk across it.” And we were like, “In this case, Bear, the viewer is making a mistake.” So he walked across it and eventually, sure enough, he fell through. The nation’s favourite doctor is here to inspire us all to love ourselves, however our brains work. He’ll show us how to train our brain and become the best we can be in this empowering and inclusive session. Dr Ranj not only tells us how the brain works but also shows you how to train it to get better at stuff you find difficult. Following his advice will help you learn how to make the most of your brain and how to keep your mind happy and healthy. He’ll also share top tips on the right foods to fuel your brain and your mental wellbeing from his brand new book How To Be a Boy: And Do It Your Own Way.Bear’s tough. If you remember him from his Man vs. Wild days, you’ve seen him jump into things like that naked, with no editing. So yeah, he fell in the ice. He pulled himself up out of there. What he actually did was he stripped down, because his clothes were soaking wet, and started rolling in the snow to get the wet stuff off of him. Music is everything! Join author, broadcaster and educator Jeffrey Boakye as he introduces his first middle-grade novel, Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer. You’ll meet Kofi and his best friend Kelvin who find themselves on a mischievous, money-making ’90s adventure. Learn about iconic ’90s artists, find out how to write a rap and discover why Kofi and Kelvin are about to have their best summer ever. Then what happens? Because on the show, he hauls himself out of the lake and the episode ends. He was really in that lake, wasn’t he? How dangerous is that? Do producers swarm him and warm him up as soon as he gets out? I was at a Scouting event the other day and a guy came up and said, ‘I was one of the people who helped select you as Chief Scout. I’m an old man now, but 15 years on, you don’t look any different.’ It’s a combination of Bear and the medics’ judgment call. You could make this show as extreme as you want to, and it could be very dangerous for the host. You could kill the host if you wanted to. We just had to draw that line. When Bear told us, for instance, “If I was really out here, I would figure out a way to start a fire, and I would likely survive. But do we really want to film for the next three hours, me freezing and hopefully starting a fire?” Also, with Netflix, we didn’t want to depict Bear failing mortally. We didn’t want to scare kids. So rescue by helicopter was always an option. When we get to that line when we’d ask Bear if he had any options left, he’d say, “Not really, dude.” And we’d say, “cool, let’s film a rescue sequence.”

Do you want to make more episodes of this show? As you were filming it, were you thinking about other scenarios to try? Bear is a number one best-selling author, having written over 90 books, selling in excess of 20 million copies worldwide. He is an Honorary Colonel to the Royal Marines Commandos, the youngest ever UK Chief Scout, and the first ever Chief Ambassador to the World Scout Organisation, representing a global family of some 57 million Scouts. Basically we’d be like, “All right, Bear, you’ve got to get across this river. What are two ways you could do that?” And he’d be like, “I could try to swing across on this vine, or I could try to balance on the log and get across.” He’d know in his mind which was the better bet, the safer bet, but we’d let the viewer play with him a little bit, almost like he was their action figure. He’d do both, and then once he would do one, we had a change of clothes if he needed for continuity. We were straddling the unscripted and scripted worlds in a way I’ve never done before.Ha, I assume so, but I actually don’t know. That’s an even bigger issue on Running Wild, when we’re taking celebrities out. For the episodes that have more of a story frame, like the one where he has to rescue the dog, how much did Bear know going in? Did he know where the dog was going to be, or did he figure that out in real time? We spent millions of years evolving to eat meat and our diets have changed in the last 50 years – I feel humans aren’t designed for that. It’s this weird straddling of the two, right? Obviously the dog wasn’t really stranded. We created that sandbox for Bear to play in. Bear didn’t know where the dog was, so we as the producers tried to stay one step ahead of Bear. It’s much easier for him to improvise if there is some uncertainty. As we put obstacles in front of him, we’d say, “What are two ways you could do this?” And off he’d go.

There are some circumstances where both options work. You always get funneled onto the frozen lake, for instance. But once you’re on the frozen lake, he knows he’s probably going to fall through it unless he crawls, right? I’m sure viewers would be happy to know that the dog was not actually out there for 36 hours waiting to be rescued by Bear Grylls.Bydd pob digwyddiad yn cael ei ffrydio'n fyw ar y diwrnod, ac maen nhw’n rhad ac am ddim i'w gwylio eto ar Hay Player (pennawd yn Gymraeg a Saesneg). Gallwch brynu llyfrau ar y safle o Siop Gŵyl y Gelli.