Simon Reeve - From The Archives
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We're revisiting one of the podcast's favourite episodes today, from back in Season 3, and we're joined by one of travel’s most familiar faces. Known for his TV series tracing the Equator, the Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn, following the world’s sacred rivers and pilgrimages, travelling the length of the Americas, and deep diving into destinations like Burma, Russia and Colombia, visiting over 130 countries along the way. It is of course the adventurer, author and broadcaster, Simon Reeve.
If you’ve watched Simon’s shows, you’ll know they’re not your typical travel programmes. He’s known for digging beneath the surface of a place, and telling the stories - both good and bad - that need to be told. What you may not know is that Simon is really very experienced when it comes to digging a little deeper as he began his career as an investigative journalist, and went on to become a NY Times best-selling author, all before he even appeared on our TV screens.
Simon has undertaken numerous extraordinary journeys, but none of them are quite as extraordinary as the journey his own life has taken. I think you’ll be both amazed and inspired by it.
Destination Recap:
- Studland Bay, Dorset, England
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Hagia Sophia Grand Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey
- Gabon
- Madagascar
- Bangladesh
- Somaliland
- West Country, England
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Senegal
- Mali
- The Arctic
- The Antarctic
- Paraguay
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, |
| 0:11.5 | and here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about the seven chapters in |
| 0:16.9 | their life's travel diaries. From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they fell in love with |
| 0:23.2 | to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket list. |
| 0:27.3 | We'll be uncovering their adventures around the world |
| 0:30.1 | and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:35.4 | Over the next two weeks, I'm sharing two of my all-time favorite episodes from the Travel Diaries |
| 0:41.0 | archive as we build up to our big season finale with Dame Joanna Lumley. |
| 0:46.4 | And first up, it's Simon Reeve, who I first spoke to in August 2020. |
| 0:52.0 | And to this day, if someone asks me about the podcast and like which episode they |
| 0:56.8 | should get stuck into first I often point them to this one Simon's life story just blew me away |
| 1:04.1 | and you know it's hard to find someone as well travelled as he is so let's go back and hear from him now. |
| 1:13.1 | Today I'm joined by a guest who I've been hoping to interview on the podcast since the day |
| 1:17.7 | that it launched. He's one of our most familiar faces when it comes to travel, known for his |
| 1:22.8 | TV series tracing the equator, the tropics of cancer and Capricorn, following the world's sacred |
| 1:29.9 | rivers and pilgrimages, travelling the length of the Americas and deep diving into destinations |
| 1:36.4 | like Burma, Russia and Colombia, visiting over 130 countries along the way. |
| 1:43.0 | It is, of course, the adventurer author and broadcaster, Simon |
| 1:47.8 | Reeve. Now, if you've watched Simon shows, you'll know they're not your typical travel |
| 1:52.3 | programs. He's known for digging beneath the surface of a place and telling the stories, |
| 1:57.5 | both good and bad, that need to be told. What you may not know is Simon is really |
| 2:02.0 | very experienced when it comes to digging a little deeper as he began his career as an investigative |
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