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Simon
Reeve is an adventurer and bestselling author and TV
presenter who has travelled to more than 120 countries
making multiple award-winning TV series for the BBC.
They include The Americas, Caribbean, Russia, Sacred
Rivers, Indian Ocean, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic
of Capricorn, Pilgrimage, Australia (Winner of the
British Travel Press Award for Broadcast Travel
Programme), and Mediterranean. He has received a One
World Broadcasting Trust Award for "an outstanding
contribution to greater world understanding" the
prestigious Ness Award from the Royal Geographical
Society, the Special Contribution Award at the Travel
Media Awards, multiple reader awards for Best and Top
TV series from leading travel magazines, and the John
Tompkins Natural History Award from the International
Moving Image Society, an award “for extraordinary
achievements” in the field of natural wildlife
and history filmmaking. His books have been in the
bestseller lists of both The Sunday Times and The New
York Times.
The BBC describes Simon as “British
television’s most adventurous traveller”,
and after nearly two decades spent making more than 100
programmes Simon has become a familiar face on British
TV, well known for his extraordinary foreign journeys.
Most of Simon’s documentaries combine travel and
adventure with global environmental, wildlife, and
conservation issues, and have taken him across jungles,
deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most
beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world.
Simon’s dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with
the Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays,
seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through
minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish
by the President of Moldova, adopted by former
headhunters, and detained for spying by the KGB.
Simon’s own journey started after he left school
with few qualifications. After a period on the dole, he
ran charity shops, stacked shelves, and eventually
found a job as a post-boy on a newspaper. He quickly
graduated to research and writing, and then spent years
working, often covertly, on investigations into nuclear
smuggling and terrorism. His 1998 investigative book
The New Jackals, the first in the world on Osama bin
Laden and al Qaeda, became an international bestseller,
and was followed by his book One Day in September,
which is also an Oscar-winning documentary movie.
Since making the leap to television Simon’s
adventures have been broadcast in dozens of countries,
enthralling millions.
The
Independent: “TV's
most interesting globetrotter”
Radio
Times: “what’s
so delightful about Reeve is his openness and
respect…The engaging Reeve brings enthusiasm and
openness to all his documentaries.”
The
Sun: "If
Simon Reeve is your guide, you know you’re going
to be in for an epic adventure...Simon is a brilliant
host.”
The
Daily Telegraph said:
“like all the best travellers, Reeve carries out
his investigations with infectious relish, and in the
realisation that trying to understand the country
you’re in is not just fascinating, but also
hugely enjoyable.”
The
Times has
said: “Reeve is in a class of his own”.
Lonely Planet - Tom Hall, Travel Editor: "The best
travel television programmes of the past five
years”
The
Observer:
“Simon Reeve, a man whose very name is a
guarantee of interesting television.
Outstanding.”
On
this site you can find out more information on some of
Simon's journeys and books.
TELEVISION:
SOUTH AMERICA - 2020-2022
Simon travelled down through South America to complete
his journey through The Americas.
The
whole journey is documented over 10 x 1 hour episodes.
The Americas
- 2019
In
his most ambitious journey yet, Simon Reeve is
travelling the entire length of the Americas, through
the two continents that together make up a quarter of
Earth’s land space. It’s an incredible ride
through some of the most beautiful landscapes on the
planet.
In this first series (‘The Americas with Simon
Reeve’ - 5 x 1 hours) he’s travelling down
through North America, from the icy wilderness of
Alaska to the tropical heat of Costa Rica.
Mediterranean - 2018
Burma - 2018
Big Life Fix - Children in Need Special - 2017
Russia - 2017 -
Turkey - 2017 -
Big Life Fix - 2016
Greece
- 2016
In
'Greece with Simon Reeve', Simon travels around one of
the most beautiful, troubled and extreme countries in
Europe, from the islands of the Aegean to the rugged
and mountainous north.
Ireland
- 2015
Ireland
with Simon Reeve explores the Republic of Ireland and
Northern Ireland in a new two-part series. Both form
one of the most beautiful islands in the world: a place
steeped in history, culture and belief, but one with a
complex and troubled past.
Daily
Mail: “Pick of the Week…unique encounters
and experiences”
The Observer: “Reeve’s programmes are
always engaging…and this two-part tour is no
exception”
Daily Mirror: “Don’t Miss…an epic
journey to explore the landscape and people of
Ireland”
Caribbean...
2015
Simon
travels around the edge of the Caribbean Sea for a
stunning new 3x1hr series that blends travel with
wildlife, issues, adventure, and incredible insights
into a glorious region of the world.
Wildfires 2014: Inside the
Inferno
Radio Times:
"Thrilling"
Sacred Rivers
- broadcast during 2014.
Reviews
The Tea Trail
and
The Coffee Trail
- 2014
Pilgrimage
- 2013 - for centuries pilgrimage was one of the
greatest adventures on earth, involving epic journeys
across the country and around the world. This series
sees Simon retrace the exciting adventures of our
ancestors.
Daily
Mail:
“a truly miraculous journey”
TV
Times:
“a truly engaging first leg…4 stars”
Radio
Times:
“Pick of the Week”
The
Observer: "Outstanding…The
BBC has had a few goes at documentary series on this
theme, but they all pale in the face of this three-part
project by Simon Reeve, a man whose very name is a
guarantee of interesting
television."
Australia
- 2013 - the
first episode of Simon’s journey takes him from
the ‘red centre’ of the country south to
the wine region, then west to Perth. On the second he
travels across the remote and wild north to the Great
Barrier Reef. And his third takes him down the east
coast to the magnificent cities of Sydney and
Melbourne.
Radio
Times:
“Simon Reeve is about as adventurous as travel
journalists get. The man behind BBC documentaries House
of Saud, Equator and Indian Ocean has investigated
terrorism, been shot at and suffered malaria, all to
bring us thrilling TV.”
The
Guardian:
“Simon Reeve is that floppy smiley chap who goes
to all the places the Foreign Office website says you
shouldn't. He's still a nice travel companion…and
he finds good stories”
The
Observer:
“Reeve is a natural storyteller with a good eye
for the topical…at every turn, he's talking to
people…Intelligent reporting bolstered by good
photography. Recommended.”
Cuba
with Simon Reeve was shown on the BBC during December
2012
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Indian Ocean
- in this epic 6-part TV series Simon travelled around
the edge of the Indian Ocean. Starting
his journey in South Africa, Simon headed up the east
coast of Africa, around India and back down the western
coast of Indonesia to Australia. The extraordinary
adventure took Simon to 16 countries, as he braved the
horrors of Mogadishu in Somalia, perhaps the most
dangerous place on the planet, and travelled on to the
beautiful Maldives, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
Radio
Times - Documentary of the Week: “Epic…capturing
big issues in chatty encounters. Reeve’s winning
combination of a broad smile and enough journalistic
edge to cut through tourist clichés makes for a great
watch that also educates us”
Daily
Telegraph: "compelling
and sometimes uncomfortable television...digging deep
beneath the white-sand beaches and swaying palm trees
to come up with all sorts of gems and muck"
Daily
Mail: “Five
Stars…terrifically varied and
engaging...compelling...fascinating viewing"
Mail
on Sunday: "You
won't lack for breathtaking beauty in Reeve's new
series, but this is far more than just another
bloodless travelogue... Reeve also fearlessly explores
troubled war zones and crime-ridden urban areas along
the way"
Tropic of Cancer
-
shown on BBC2 during 2010, and around the world during
2011, Simon circled the world following the line that
marks the northern border of Earth's tropical region.
After his acclaimed series Equator and Tropic of
Capricorn this epic trip completed Simon's trilogy of
journeys exploring the tropics. Simon started
his journey on the paradise beaches of Mexico’s
Pacific Coast, and then circumnavigated the planet,
heading east across the Caribbean, the Sahara, crossing
borders in North Africa closed to foreigners for
decades, and then on through the deserts of Arabia and
the remote jungles of Asia, to finish in
Hawaii. He visited 18 countries, meeting
amazing people, witnessing bizarre and beautiful
sights, and encountering spectacular and endangered
wildlife
Radio
Times: “Revelatory,
moving and intriguing, it’s much more than just a
travelogue.”
The
Times: “a
real gem… Reeve is in a class of his own.”
Buy the Tropic of Cancer DVD from
Amazon
Explore
- 2009 - Simon and a team of BBC presenters travel to
some of the most exotic and extreme locations on earth.
Explore blends travel with current affairs to get under
the skin of some fascinating countries.
Sunday Times: “Pick
of the Week…Encompassing landscape, environment,
human interest, football and politics, the team
presents a rounded, vibrant and original
picture.”
Tropic of Capricorn
- during 2008 Simon
tracked the Tropic of Capricorn around the globe,
heading east through Africa, Australia and South
America, discovering breathtaking sights, strange
rituals, desperate poverty and exotic wildlife. The
22,835-mile Tropic of Capricorn marks the southern
border of the tropics, and crosses some of the wildest
and most spectacular parts of our planet...
Daily
Mail: “Five
Stars…a series that will go down as one of the
high points of the television
year…brilliant…hugely
enjoyable…eye-opening…amazing
sights…a fascinating, illuminating journey"
Radio
Times: "moving
stories and remarkable sights"
Daily
Mirror: “fun,
fascinating and frightening”
Equator
- 2006 - this BBC TV series took Simon on an epic
journey through the centre of the Tropics - the region
of the world with both the richest biodiversity, and
perhaps the greatest concentration of human suffering.
The series was a Silver Award winner at the Wanderlust
Travel Awards.
Radio
Times:
“an extraordinary
journey…revelatory…thrilling and
thought-provoking…hits us with jaw-dropping
facts…eye-opening…delivers a string of
revealing snapshots.”
The
Observer: “excellent…Reeve
is charming, light-hearted and funny, with a good sense
of the ridiculous”
Places That Don’t Exist
- 2005 - a TV series in which Simon travelled to a
group of unrecognised nations – countries so
obscure they don’t officially exist.
Daily Telegraph:
"Exemplary...riveting… eye-opening…superb"
Daily
Mail:
"Unmissable...makes the blood boil...It would be good
if this brave programme stirred a few consciences.
Shaming."
Meet the Stans
- 2003 - in Simon's first TV adventure he travelled
around the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The Guardian:
“…a thrilling postcard from the edge”
The
Times: “Simon
Reeve’s journey through Kazakhstan is a
first-class Boy’s Own adventure on film and
illuminating too. I can’t imagine anyone
switching off who stays for the first five
minutes.”
BOOKS:
Simon
has written a number of travel and non-fiction books
investigating subjects such as terrorism, biological
warfare and international organised crime. His
books
include:
2021 NEW BOOK -
JOURNEYS TO IMPOSSIBLE PLACES
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In Journeys to Impossible
Places,
best-selling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals
the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and
experiences, around the planet and close to home.
Journeys to Impossible
Places continues the story Simon
started in his phenomenal Sunday
Times bestseller Step
by Step,
which traced the first decades of his life from
depressed and unemployed teenager through to his early
TV programmes.
Now Simon takes us on the epic and thrilling adventures
that followed, in beautiful, tricky and downright
dangerous corners of the world, as he travelled through
the Tropics, to remote paradise islands, jungles
dripping with heat and life, and on nerve-wracking
secret missions.
Simon shares what his unique experiences and encounters
have taught him, and the deeper lessons he draws from
joy and raw grief in his personal life, from desperate
struggles with his own fertility and head health, from
wise friends, fatherhood, the pandemic, inspiring
villagers, brave fighters, his beloved dogs, and a
thoughtful Indian sadhu.
Journeys to Impossible
Places inspires and encourages all
of us to battle fear and negativity, and embrace life,
risk, opportunities and the glory of our
world.
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2018 NEW BOOK! -
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buy
SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
+6,000 Amazon reviews!
Simon
has journeyed across epic landscapes, dodged bullets on
frontlines, hunted with the San Bushmen of the
Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks,
survived malaria, walked through minefields and been
detained for spying by the KGB. His travels have taken
him across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and
to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote
regions of the world.
In ‘Step
by Step’
Simon gives the full story behind some of his favourite
expeditions, and traces his own inspiring personal
journey back to leaving school without qualifications,
teetering on a bridge, and then overcoming his
challenges by climbing to a ‘Lost Valley’
and changing his life…step by step…
Click here to
buy
The Sunday Times Bestseller
Shortlisted for the 2019 Stanfords Travel Memoir Award
“Phenomenal…incredibly
honest…one of the best autobiographies I’ve
ever read.” –
The Sun
“What
a book. What a story. I had no idea. A cracking,
riveting read. It’s
amazing…fascinating…It’s a gripping
tale from start to finish. I couldn’t put it
down, literally couldn’t put it down…
it’s so diverse, it’s beautifully written.
It’s a real page-turner…The best
autobiography of anyone under 50 I’ve ever
read”
Chris Evans, Radio 2
"My
goodness, it is brilliant. Searingly honest, warm,
bursting with humanity. Such brave and inspiring
writing” -
Kate Humble
“Gripping…plenty of thrills…weaves
autobiography and traveller’s tales, covers three
decades and reveals how Reeve changed his life, step by
step. Reeve is a most likeable travelling companion,
and the joy of the open road radiates from these
pages” -
The Times Literary Supplement,
the leading international weekly for literary culture
“Must read: with experiences from the surreal to
the hazardous…his story reads like a fast-paced
thriller, packed with bizarre coincidences, chance
meetings with celebrities, and humbling encounters with
remarkable people.” –
Daily Mail
“Simon
Reeve’s own journey from troubled teenager to TV
star has been every bit as turbulent as his on-screen
adventures…compelling. Fantastic.”
–
Mail on Sunday
“Shocking”
-
Mirror
“Cracking
stories from his travels” –
Alastair Humphreys, Explorer and National Geographic
Adventurer of the Year
“Astounding,
intimate, gripping… More adventures than most of
us would experience in several lifetimes. Reeve’s
appetite for adventure is palpable. And this vivid
account of his fascinating, often hair-raising crusades
feels more like an enthralling exchange over coffee
with a friend than a formal autobiography”
-
Compass Magazine
“It
is an account of his mind's journey to inner peace
– and it is wonderfully life-affirming” -
Max Pemberton,
Daily Mail
“genuinely
interesting stories…remarkable”
–
London Evening Standard
“fascinating…
a very honest account of the world as he has seen it,
from Acton to the ends of the Earth”
–Geographical
magazine, Royal Geographical Society
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buy
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TROPIC
OF CAPRICORN:
Paperback
edition
Tropic of
Capricorn
- published by BBC Books, this details Simon's journey
around the southern border of the tropics, providing
much more detail than the TV series and lots of new
stories.
Daily Telegraph: “like
all the best travellers, Reeve carries out his
investigations with infectious relish, and in the
realisation that trying to understand the country
you’re in is not just fascinating, but also
hugely enjoyable.”
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin
Laden and the future of terrorism
- this book, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic
terrorism, was the first in the world on bin Laden and
al Qaeda. Originally published in 1998 it has been a
New York Times and international bestseller.
Described as Essential or Recommended Reading by scores
of newspapers, magazines, government officials and
academics around the world.
The
Washington Post:
"A painfully relevant book"
The Washington Times: “a
compelling reconstruction...an outstanding account
describing a terrible and growing peril”.
Ahmed Rashid (bestselling
author of the critically-acclaimed Taliban):
“truly original investigative work...Reeve has
had unprecedented access to Arab sources as well as US
intelligence sources”
BBC
News: described
Simon as “perhaps the world’s leading
expert on al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden".
One Day in September: the story of the
1972 Munich Olympics massacre and Israeli revenge
operation 'Wrath of God'
- published by Faber in the UK and Arcade in the US.
The documentary film of the same name, narrated by the
actor Michael Douglas, won an Oscar for best
documentary movie. The story of the Munich massacre and
subsequent Israeli revenge operation was also turned
into a major feature movie by Steven Spielberg.
The
New Yorker:
"Highly skilled and detailed...it’s a
page-turner"
Daily
Mail:
"This astonishing record of the massacre at the Munich
Olympics should be compulsory reading...I read in one
sitting the gripping narrative"
International
Herald Tribune: “a
masterclass in investigative journalism...brilliantly
recaptures the tension of the day as well as the human
cost of the botched police operation”.
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video for the Tropic of Cancer series:
Take a
look at Simon's channel on YouTube.
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