Right. But that being said, it’s a simulation. So we do want to simulate what would happen if you touched that milky substance. I don’t know. Am I going to be doing this when I’m 70? Are you going to be doing this when you’re 70?

Give the young person in your life the mindset they need to thrive. Kids today are presented with new challenges all the time. 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.” Totally. It was a real challenge, and there were times when I was pining for the days of the simple, linear, unscripted TV show producing. That being said, I really liked the challenge and I’d love to do more. There are so many places in the world were we could take Bear. But ask the 48-year-old whether his high-octane career has taken its toll and he will admit these days “everything hurts”.Kids today are presented with new challenges all the time. They face an uncertain future and are under constant pressure to thrive in an overwhelming and fast-paced world. It was a lot of improvisation. The thing I would say it’s most akin to is Curb Your Enthusiasm. We’ve got a talent who shows up in a sandbox we’ve prepared, and he improvises his way through everything. I’ve worked with Bear for five years now, and that’s his thing. You give him a sandbox and then launch him. 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? For Bear, this includes a very public U-turn from evangelical vegan to committed carnivore. “Our bodies don’t deal with being plant-based, in my experience, but they do deal well with animal products.

Mwynhewch ddau ddiwrnod o hwyl ac ysbrydoliaeth gydag awduron cyffrous a pherfformiadau sy'n ysgogi'r meddwl ar gyfer pobl ifanc. Mae’n bleser gennym gyflwyno’r Rhaglen Ysgolion yn fyw eleni, gyda digwyddiadau wyneb yn wyneb i ddisgyblion yng Nghyfnod Allweddol 2 yn cael eu rhedeg ar ddydd Iau 25 Mai ac i ddisgyblion yng Nghyfnodau Allweddol 3 a 4 ar ddydd Gwener 26 Mai. It was months and months of pre-production. Basically, Bear would send us to places he thought would be interesting for adventures. And then we shot for about five days per episode. There’s a couple two-parters in there, but they were each five days per part. Anyone who’s watching that discerningly can make their own assumptions. What I’ll say is, sometimes it happens naturally, and sometimes we have to push it along a bit. 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.Believe it or not, I’ve filmed him doing that a bunch of times. Running into a crocodile in Panama is like running into a squirrel in Central Park. I don’t want to spoil it for the viewer. Let me just say, part of the game is you making bad decisions, and some of those decisions, it’s almost a human rights issue. We’re not gonna… Explore an imagining of the before and after of global warming with Emma Carroll. Her latest time-travelling adventure suggests that the future has a lot to learn from the past… It’s the near future and Britain is having yet another heatwave. For Polly, it’s the sort of heat that makes her do wild, out-of-character things just to cool down. Like face her fear of deepwater. Essential when she and her brother have been sent to their aunt’s eco lakeside house for the summer. But Truthwater Lake is beginning to dry up and, as the water level diminishes, a lost village emerges... Abi Elphinstone’s stories are never less than thrilling, whether taking us dog-sledding in the Arctic or living with the Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia. She shares the real-life adventures behind these tales, showing us just how easy it is to leap into stories of our own. Jump with Abi into her latest book Saving Neverland – a modern, magical sequel to Peter Pan, complete with moonpaper maps, frostbears and a woolly mammoth called Armageddon.