English author and television presenter (born 1972)
Simon Alan Reeve
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Simon Reeve in 2009, source BBC.
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Born
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1972-07-21
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21 July 1972
(age 51)
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Occupation(s)
| Author, documentary filmmaker, television presenter
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Known for
| First and only author to document
1993 World Trade Center bombing
,
Terrorism and political travel documentary film maker
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Television
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Spouse
| Anya Reeve (nee Courts)
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Children
| 1
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Awards
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Website
| www
.simonreeve
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Simon Alan Reeve
[1]
(born 21 July 1972) is an
English
author, journalist, adventurer, documentary filmmaker and television presenter.
Reeve divides his home time between London and Devon.
[2]
[3]
He makes global travel and environmental documentaries, and has written books on international terrorism,
[4]
modern history, and his adventures. Amongst his many television programmes and series for the
BBC
, Reeve has presented
Holidays in the Danger Zone
:
Places That Don't Exist
,
[4]
Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve
,
Equator
and
Tropic of Capricorn
.
Reeve is the author of
The New Jackals
(1998),
One Day in September
(2005) and
Tropic of Capricorn
(2007). He has received a
One World Broadcasting Trust
Award
[5]
and the 2012
Ness Award
from the
Royal Geographical Society
(RGS).
[6]
Early life
[
edit
]
Reeve was born and raised in
Acton
,
West London
, by his parents, Alan Reeve, who was a teacher, and Cindy Reeve, who was an occupational therapist and worked in restaurants.
[7]
He has a younger brother called James.
[8]
He attended the
Twyford Church of England High School
in Acton.
[9]
Reeve had a ‘tense and sometimes violent relationship’ with his father when he was growing up.
[10]
He said that in his house ‘there was endless shouting, lots of crashing and banging, and a few times it was so violent we or our neighbours called the police to come and break us up’.
[11]
From the age of 14, he required
counselling
due to behavioural problems, such as starting fires, vandalism, and setting off an explosive at the
Ealing Broadway Centre
.
[3]
He ended up carrying a knife by the time he was 12 or 13.
[12]
He described his final months at school being "a bit of a blur".
[3]
He left school with one GCSE, living on benefits, and with mental health problems.
[3]
At the age of 17, Reeve stated he was even a "whisker away" from
suicide
.
[3]
He found himself standing on the edge of a bridge, unable to "face existence", but something made him climb back.
[13]
Career
[
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]
After leaving school, he took a series of jobs, including working in a supermarket, a jewellery shop and a charity shop. Eventually, aged 18, he ended up as a
post boy
at the British newspaper
The Sunday Times
.
[14]
[15]
[16]
After starting at
The Sunday Times
as a post boy, he then worked at the cuttings library, before helping a team of investigative journalists,
[3]
and by night he was working on investigations into nuclear and weapons smuggling, and terrorism.
[14]
[15]
One of his formative roles at 18 was to follow a weapons dealer from
Gatwick Airport
.
[14]
At the age of 21, citing his "fearlessness of youth", Reeve was investigating the
1993 World Trade Center bombing
.
[3]
[14]
[15]
He wrote a book
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism
; eventually published in 1998, it was the first book on
Osama bin Laden
,
Ramzi Yousef
, and
al-Qaeda
;
[14]
[15]
this became a
New York Times
bestseller.
[17]
Classified
documents obtained by the author, with uninhibited access from the likes of the
FBI
and the
CIA
, detailed the existence, development, and aims of al-Qaeda,
[14]
[18]
yet his book warning of an apocalyptic act by terrorists went unnoticed.
[14]
[15]
After the attacks of
11 September 2001
in the United States of America, Reeve became a media expert on terrorism on the basis of his book.
[15]
The BBC initially wanted him to make a programme involving infiltrating al-Qaeda.
[15]
He eventually began making travel documentaries. Tom Hall, travel editor for
Lonely Planet
publications, has described Reeve's travel documentaries as "the best travel television programmes of the past five years".
[19]
In January 2013, Reeve appeared in a charity special of
The Great British Bake Off
.
6 September 2018 saw the release of Reeve's autobiography called
Step by Step: The Life in My Journeys
; covering his humble beginnings to successful author and television presenter.
[16]
After catching
malaria
on a journey around the
Equator
, Reeve became an ambassador for the Malaria Awareness Campaign.
[20]
[21]
Along with
Sir David Attenborough
and other conservation specialists, Reeve is a member of the Council of Ambassadors for
WWF
, one of the world's leading environmental organisations.
[22]
In 2020, Reeve was commissioned to present his first UK based travel show
Cornwall With Simon Reeve
,
[23]
which was ordered by BBC Two alongside
Incredible Journeys With Simon Reeve
. The latter show is due to be a 'look back' programme similar to
Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures
or
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
[24]
(a show which featured both Reeve and Lumley talking about the ex-Monty Python actor's travels).
Television
[
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]
- 2003 ?
Holidays in the Danger Zone
:
Meet the Stans
[25]
- 2004 ?
House of Saud
(also broadcast as:
Saudi: The Family in Crisis
)
[26]
- 2005 ?
Holidays in the Danger Zone
:
Places That Don't Exist
[4]
[27]
- 2006 ?
Equator
[28]
(Silver Award winner, 2007 Wanderlust Travel Awards)
- 2008 ?
Tropic of Capricorn
[29]
- 2009 ?
Explore
- 2010 ?
Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve
[30]
- 2012 ?
Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve
[31]
- 2012 ?
Cuba with Simon Reeve
[32]
- 2013 ?
Australia with Simon Reeve
[33]
- 2013 ?
Pilgrimage
with Simon Reeve
- 2014 ?
Tea Trail/Coffee Trail with Simon Reeve
[34]
- 2014 ?
Sacred Rivers with Simon Reeve
- 2015 ?
Caribbean with Simon Reeve
[14]
- 2015 ?
Ireland with Simon Reeve
- 2016 ?
Greece with Simon Reeve
- 2017 ?
Turkey with Simon Reeve
[15]
- 2017 ?
Colombia with Simon Reeve
- 2017 ?
Russia with Simon Reeve
[35]
- 2018 ?
Burma with Simon Reeve
- 2018 ?
Mediterranean with Simon Reeve
- 2019 ?
North Americas with Simon Reeve
- 2020 ?
Cornwall with Simon Reeve
- 2021 ?
Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve
[3]
- 2021 ?
The Lakes with Simon Reeve
[36]
- 2022 ?
Simon Reeve's South America
[37]
- 2023 ?
Simon Reeve's Return to Cornwall
[38]
- 2024 ?
Wilderness with Simon Reeve
[39]
Bibliography
[
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]
Awards and accolades
[
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]
Personal life
[
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]
Reeve is married to Anya Reeve
[3]
(nee Courts), a television camerawoman and campaigner who has stood as a
Green Party
candidate.
[40]
The couple have a son called Jake.
[3]
[41]
References
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Crampton, Robert.
"Simon Reeve interview: on his new book Step by Step and why he's going on tour"
.
The Times
.
ISSN
0140-0460
. Retrieved
20 November
2022
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Shute, Joe (25 January 2019).
"Simon Reeve: My teen mental health torment drove me to the brink"
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"Simon Reeve: "We are too connected as people now to ignore the rest of the world"
"
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. Retrieved
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Step By Step The Life In My Journeys
.
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.
ISBN
9781473689107
.
"Taking chances is often where the best memories are, and the richest rewards in life come from a bit of risk-taking. We can all benefit from pushing ourselves, our partners, friends or family, out of our respective comfort zones"
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"The Trouble with the CIA - The New York Review of Books"
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Deeley, Laura (12 May 2007).
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. Archived from
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"BBC Two - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime, Series 1, Episode 1"
.
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. Retrieved
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.
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Reeve, Simon (29 September 2003).
"Meet the Stans"
.
BBC News
. Retrieved
23 May
2010
.
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"Saudi: The Family in Crisis"
.
BBC News
. 8 July 2004
. Retrieved
23 May
2010
.
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Productions, Shootandscribble.
"Places That Don't Exist"
.
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Productions, Shootandscribble.
"Equator"
.
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"Tropic of Capricorn"
.
BBC News
. 10 March 2008
. Retrieved
23 May
2010
.
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Productions, Shootandscribble.
"Tropic of Cancer"
.
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Productions, Shootandscribble.
"Indian Ocean"
.
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Productions, Shootandscribble.
"Cuba"
.
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Summers, Chris (25 January 2014).
"How Vietnam became a coffee giant"
.
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"Russia With Simon Reeve: Episode Two"
.
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. 5 October 2017
. Retrieved
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2017
.
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"The Lakes with Simon Reeve"
.
bbc.co.uk
. Retrieved
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2021
.
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"Simon Reeve returns to BBC Two with brand new South America Series"
.
bbc.co.uk
. Retrieved
31 August
2021
.
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"Simon Reeve's Return to Cornwall"
.
bbc.co.uk
. Retrieved
31 March
2023
.
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"Simon Reeve travels across the world's greatest wilderness for new BBC series"
.
bbc.co.uk
. Retrieved
18 October
2023
.
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"Camden News: Anya Reeve | Larraine Revah | Linda Chung | Stephen Phillips | Hampstead Town by-election"
.
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.
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"Who is Simon Reeve's wife? The Americas tour to family adventures!"
. hitc.com. 8 October 2020
. Retrieved
18 October
2020
.
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