The series attracted an audience of nine million. Fogle has since become a regular television presenter for the BBC, hosting Crufts, One Man and His Dog, Countryfile, Country Tracks, Extreme Dreams With Ben Fogle, Animal Park, Wild on the West Coast, Wild in Africa, and “Ben Fogle’s Escape in Time”. Fogle has completed the Bupa great North Run in 1 hour 33 minutes, the London Marathon and the Royal Parks Half marathon. He beat Eastenders actor Sid Owen in a three-round charity boxing match for BBC Sport Relief under the training of Frank Bruno, and he recently re-ran the Safaricom marathon in Kenya with the injured Battleback Soldiers. in 2009, The Race to the Pole was published by Macmillan and spent ten weeks in the bestseller list. He is guest director of Cheltenham Literary Festival and a regular at Hay-on-Wye.
