The Island with Bear Grylls — Season 5

Aired 2 April 2018 • 45 min

Bears drops the 16 castaways in caiman-infested mangroves and deep water. The two teams soon meet, and it quickly becomes clear that the island isn't their biggest challenge, at the prospect of living together kickstarts a class war.

Aired 9 April 2018 • 45 min

After a class war on the Pacific desert island, the wealthy and less well-off teams go their separate ways and set up two camps at opposite ends of the same beach.

Aired 16 April 2018 • 45 min

In search of much-needed food, Barnes decides to risk strong currents and riptides on a journey by raft to a nearby island. But the voyage has disastrous consequences.

Aired 23 April 2018 • 45 min

After three weeks on the island, the castaways are malnourished. Still living at opposite ends of the same beach, the wealthy and less well-off teams finally put their differences aside in a joint hunting expedition.

Aired 30 April 2018 • 45 min

Facing their last week of isolation, the two camps decide to settle their class issues and battle the high seas, in a joint bid to raft to the neighbouring island. Can they bury their differences before Bear arrives.

Aired 1 May 2018 • 45 min

Bear Grylls arrives on the island eager to get the stories behind the castaways' class war and their often dubious survival strategies.