The Island with Bear Grylls UK

Bear Grylls is abandoning 13 ordinary British men on a remote, uninhabited island in the pacific. Can they survive for a month completely alone? When stripped of all the luxuries and conveniences of 21st century living, does modern British man still have the spirit and skills to survive?

In this episode, 48 hours since their last meal and hunger grips the group as the harsh reality of island life is dawning. The race is on to bring food back to camp before they become too weak to hunt.

The men are radically losing weight, existing on a paltry average of just 300 calories a day. With their very survival hanging in the balance, the castaways lose patience with those they feel are not pulling their weight.

Three weeks in and the group is barely getting by on a meagre diet of snails and coconuts. Willing to take ever-greater risks for food, Mike and Chris battle with treacherous tides in a desperate search for much needed fruit.

In this final episode the men enter their fourth week of living on the island and the group is hungry and divided. And without unity, the men are not gathering enough food to survive. With island life starting to fall apart the men's bodies and minds are beginning to show the strain of the experiment.

This special episode sees Bear visiting the men at the end of the experiment to take an in-depth look at life on the island, exploring how the men coped with their experience, how it has affected them and revealing how the show was made.