These two tough bedu dudes, his go-fors 19 & 21 years old, when not working for 'His /Her Majesties Government was off rustling camels and stealing wimmin!
Ben & James Versus the Arabian Desert - 9.15pm BBC 2 Boxing
Series 1 - Episode 1 of 2
Part one of two. Four years after On Thin Ice - their Antarctic expedition for BBC Two - James Cracknell and Ben Fogle reunite to attempt an unguided crossing of a portion of the Rub' al Khali desert - also known as the Empty Quarter. The duo are following in the footsteps of British explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who travelled extensively in the region between 1945 and 1949 and earned the nickname of Mubarak bin London from the Bedouin tribes
Cast: Ben Fogle, James Cracknell
Runtime: 1 hour (starts in 3 days 9 hours 50 minutes)