The survivalist takes vulnerable children and their fathers to the jungle – then turns them into absolute audience fodder. It is awful to witness

I think they should start by making their kids’ tea, but then I would, wouldn’t I? Which is why I am not the commissioner of programmes such as Into the Jungle With Ed Stafford.

The premise is simple. It is up to you to decide how stupid it is. The explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford (who has walked the walk rather than just talked the talk, having become, in 2010, the first person to walk the length of the Amazon) takes six men and their children into the jungle of Belize to see if a few weeks of toughing it out amid the mosquitoes, botflies, snakes and jaguars will bring them closer together. All feel disconnected from their children and vice versa, with the exception of Jethro and his son Dexter, who acknowledge that Jethro is having trouble contemplating the separation that must take place if his 12-year-old son is to thrive as he gets older.