The Island

• Original producer: Shine TV
• Original broadcaster: Channel 4

Generations of men have wondered if they could survive being stranded on a desert island. But how would they cope if they had do to it – for real? And if they were totally alone with only themselves to rely on?

Bear Grylls is setting the ultimate survival experiment to discover whether modern man is tough and resourceful enough to survive. He is abandoning 13 British men on a remote, uninhabited pacific island for a month. They will be completely alone, filming themselves, with only the clothes they stand up in and some basic tools. The island may look like paradise but behind the beaches it can be hell on earth.

Can they survive when stripped of all the luxuries and conveniences of 21st century living? Will they be able to access the skills of their forefathers and find the hunter-gatherer within? And what will they learn about themselves when life as they know is stripped back to its basics?

The men will film the entire experience themselves. This is their story, told by them. A groundbreaking, raw and exhilarating exploration of survival and what it really means to be a man in 2014.