Living Wild: How to Change Your Life features Norfolk men

Living Wild: How to Change Your Life visited canoe builder Nick Western at his workshop situated a few miles from the River Wensum in Norwich.

In the second series of Living Wild, presenter Sophie Morgan meets people who have chosen to ditch their old lives for something completely new.

After completing an entry-level week-long boatbuilding course in the Lake District when he was 26, Mr Western decided to quit his job as a teaching assistant and start up his own business following a £3,000 grant from The Prince's Trust.

Living Wild: How to Change Your Life visits canoe builder Nick Western. Picture: Channel 4 (Image: Channel 4)

He said: "As soon as I finished the course I really knew this was something I would like to do full-time. It was such a relief.

"I was struggling to pay the bills and I wasn't particularly happy with my job."

After visiting his workshop, Morgan headed down the River Wensum in one of Mr Western's canoes.

She said: "It's like gliding on silk, it's so still. It's very peaceful... this is amazing."

Mr Western added: "I had never thought about boatbuilding, never thought about woodwork as a career.

"Never even thought about working for myself but I knew there was a better option out there."

The four-episode long series was produced by Norfolk-born Winston Gallagher who worked on the edit of the first series.

Born at the Beehive Pub in Norwich, Mr Gallagher, 42, moved to Oxford and started a career in TV in 2010.

The show also visits Matt Green, a pig farmer from Norfolk, who fell in love and relocated to the remote Colonsay Island, off the coast of Scotland.

The series took around five months to create, with filming taking place over 10 weeks.

Living Wild: How to Change Your Life, is available to watch on demand on 4od.