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Simon Reeve.
WINNER
- One World Broadcasting Trust Awards -
for an "outstanding contribution to greater world
understanding"
Simon Reeve is an author, adventurer and broadcaster. In recent years he's been travelling around little-known regions of the world for a series of BBC television documentaries. On this site you can find out more information on Simon's journeys and books. Television:
INDIAN OCEAN - in this epic 6-part TV series - for broadcast during 2012 - 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.
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. Don’t just visit…Explore!
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.”
Amazon are selling the Tropic of Cancer DVD with their usual lovely discount:
Simon's TofCapricorn book:
Paperback
edition
Simon
has written or edited a number of travel and
non-fiction books investigating subjects such as
terrorism, biological warfare and international
organised crime. His
books
include:
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"
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"
Promotional video for
the Tropic of Cancer series:
'Travel CV'
interview with Wanderlust travel magazine (1 of 5):
Take a look at Simon's channel on YouTube.
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