For pest controllers Down Under, every day is a brush with death and it's getting even more dangerous as the continent's critters are winning the battle. So desperate for help, they have called in the cavalry from the motherland. Nine brave Brits will be matched with their Australian counterparts as they leave the cold streets of the UK behind, swapping mild moles for psychotic possums, baby bed bugs for super-sized spiders and mundane moths for killer crocs.

Their guides are some of the toughest pest controllers that Australia has to offer. There's a real-life Crocodile Dundee, Barefoot Bushman Rob Bredle in Northern Queensland, who is never happier than when he is riding on the back of his one-tonne pets, Col the exterminator from New South Wales, who regularly juggles lethal funnel-web spiders with his bare hands, and Kylie who describes herself as a 'snake yoda'.

Episode One this Thursday sees how Louise Chapman, Norfolk's Lady Mole Catcher and Head of the British Mole Catchers Register, deals with a crocodile whilst having to collect croc eggs.

Starts Thursday 12 May 2016 at 8pm on DAVE

Source: BPCA.org.uk