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Short Stories for Grown Ups

Series 1

Weekend Survivalist

Duration: 17 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio FoyleLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Ulster

Prompted by a snide remark from his wife, amateur survivalist Brian Rennie decides to step up his bushcraft adventures. What better way to prove his skills than be spending two days and nights on an uninhabited island on Loch Lomond without any provisions?

Risking life and limb, Brian sets off with his trusty kayak and one-man tent into the wilds of Scotland for a warts-and-all podcast escapade and the hope of renown as the ‘Frontier Wolf’. But is some toilet-hole digging in his back garden and a trip to Kestrel World enough preparation for what awaits him on the island?

Starring Moray Hunter as Brian Rennie.

Written by Colin McLaren and developed with BBC Writersroom.

Produced and directed by David Flynn. Show less

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