Simon’s travels have taken him to scores of countries, including some of the least-known areas of the world...
TROPIC OF CANCER - to be shown on BBC2 during March-April 2010 - Simon embarks on his most ambitious journey yet, circling the world following the line that marks the northern border of the earth's tropical region. This epic trip completes Simon's trilogy of journeys exploring the tropics, after his acclaimed series Equator and Tropic of Capricorn, and is his toughest, longest and greatest challenge – a 6x60min journey around the extraordinary TROPIC OF CANCER.
“The best travel television programmes of the
past five years” - Tom Hall, Travel Editor,
Lonely Planet.
Explore
- 2009 - in which
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!
Tropic of Capricorn
- this
journey starts in Namibia, and takes viewers through
Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Western
Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, Chile,
Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Photos from the first
leg here.
Equator
- a three part series broadcast on BBC2 during late
August and September 2006.
'Equator
was one of the best travel documentaries of recent
years. Like much of the best ‘travel’
television, Equator was no Wish You Were Here?
catalogue of exotic destinations, but a punchy blend of
of adventure and current affairs journalism' –
Dan Linstead, Editor,
Wanderlust travel
magazine
Places That Don’t Exist
- this five part BBC series on breakaway states and
unrecognised nations took Simon to 'countries'
including Somaliland, Transniestria, Nagorno-Karabkh,
Ajaria, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Somalia,
Moldova, Taiwan, and the former Soviet republic of
Georgia.
Meet the Stans
- during 2003 Simon travelled around Central Asia for
the four-part BBC series Meet the Stans, which has
since been shown around the world. Meet the Stans took
Simon from the far north-west of Kazakhstan, by the
Russian border, east to the Chinese border, south
through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the edge of
Afghanistan, and west to Uzbekistan and the legendary
Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara.
House of Saud,
written and presented by Simon, this programme was
broadcast on BBC2 and BBC World during Summer 2004.
House of Saud took Simon across Saudi Arabia, from
the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah, to the isolation of
the Empty Quarter desert.
Travel
Weekly:
‘When it comes to adventure tourism, author Simon
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