Simon Reeve (British TV presenter)


Simon Alan Reeve is a British author and television presenter, currently based in London. He makes travel documentaries and has written books on international terrorism, modern history and his adventures. He has presented the BBC television series Tropic of Cancer, Equator and Tropic of Capricorn.
Reeve is the New York Times' best-selling author of The New Jackals, One Day in September and Tropic of Capricorn. He has received a One World Broadcasting Trust Award and the 2012 Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society.

Life and career

Reeve was born in Hammersmith and brought up in west London, attending Twyford Church of England High School. He rarely went abroad until he started working. After leaving school, he took a series of jobs, including working in a supermarket, a jewellery shop and a charity shop, before he started researching and writing in his spare time while working as a postboy at the British newspaper The Sunday Times.
After the attacks of 11 September 2001, Reeve began making travel documentaries for the BBC. 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".
After catching malaria on a journey around the Equator, Reeve became an ambassador for the Malaria Awareness Campaign. 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.
In January 2013, Reeve appeared in a charity special of The Great British Bake Off.

Television

Reeve is married to Anya Reeve, a TV camerawoman and campaigner who has stood as a Green Party candidate.