Simon Reeve (UK television presenter)

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Simon Reeve on the border in the unrecognised nation Nagorno-Karabakh

Simon Reeve (born 1972) is a British author and TV presenter. Based in London, he specialises in international terrorism, conflict resolution, and making travel documentaries in little-known areas of the world.

Reeve is the author of The New Jackals (1998) and One Day in September (2000). He received a One World Broadcasting Trust Award in 2005 for an "outstanding contribution to greater world understanding." [1]

1 Television
2 Publications
3 Further reading

[edit] Television

[edit] Meet the Stans

A four-part BBC2 and BBC World series on Central Asia, written and presented by Reeve. The series took Reeve 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. It was broadcast on the BBC in 2003, and internationally during 2004 and 2005.

[edit] House of Saud (also broadcast as: Saudi: The Family in Crisis)

A one-off BBC2 and BBC World documentary filmed inside Saudi Arabia, written and presented by Reeve. Participants ranged from Saudi princes and Islamic militants, to teenage girls and Osama bin Laden's former best friend. It was broadcast in 2004.

[edit] Places That Don't Exist

Places That Don't Exist was his 2005 five-part series about obscure unrecognized countries.

[edit] Equator

A three-part BBC documentary in September 2006 where Reeves follows the Equator around the world. Among the places he visited were some of the most dangerous regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Colombia.

[edit] Publications

The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism. Classified documents and evidence obtained by Reeve detailed the existence, development, and aims of al-Qaeda. The book was published in the U.S. and UK in 1998 and 1999.

One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God', published in 2000 by Faber & Faber. An account of the 1972 Munich massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes and officials were killed by Black September. The book covers the siege and massacre, the recriminations, and the launch of the Israeli Operation Wrath of God. The film of the same name won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature and was screened in cinemas around the world.