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Currently touring until 29 November 2024

Simon Reeve is embarking on a new journey across the UK, promising an engaging mix of personal anecdotes, unexpected twists, thrilling moments, and reflective thoughts, all interspersed with bouts of hearty laughter.

Simon Reeve tour dates

• Swindon , Wyvern Theatre 27 April 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Swansea , Swansea Arena 2 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• High Wycombe , Swan Theatre 3 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Woking , New Victoria Theatre 4 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Ipswich , Regent Theatre 5 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• London , Richmond Theatre 6 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Bristol , Beacon 7 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Truro , Hall For Cornwall 11 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• St Albans , Alban Arena 14 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Buxton , Opera House 15 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Wrexham , William Aston Hall 16 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Canterbury , Marlowe Theatre 19 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Chatham , Central Theatre 20 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Crawley , The Hawth 21 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Tunbridge Wells , Assembly Hall Theatre 22 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Poole , Lighthouse 23 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Worthing , Assembly Hall 24 May 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Cardiff , New Theatre 20 October 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Yeovil , Westlands 21 October 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Torquay , Princess Theatre 22 October 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Reading , The Hexagon 24 October 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Blackburn , King Georges Hall 26 October 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Leamington Spa , Royal Spa Centre 27 October 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Dudley , Town Hall 30 October 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Halifax , Victoria Theatre 31 October 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Yarm , Paa Theatre 1 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Scunthorpe , The Baths Hall 2 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Kendal , Leisure Centre 3 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Peterborough , The Cresset 6 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Warrington , Parr Hall 7 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Chester , Storyhouse 8 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Stevenage , Concert Hall 9 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Dunstable , The Grove Theatre 10 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Cambridge , Corn Exchange 11 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Dunfermline , The Alhambra Theatre 14 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Inverness , Eden Court 15 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Guildford , G Live 20 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Kings Lynn , Corn Exchange 22 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Cheltenham , Town Hall 23 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Southampton , O2 Guildhall 24 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Bury , St Edmunds The Apex 26 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Colchester , Charter Hall 27 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Folkestone , Leas Cliff Hall 28 November 2024 Book tickets ➤
• Eastbourne , Congress Theatre 29 November 2024 Book tickets ➤

Simon Reeves is heading on tour in 2024 with new dates for his To The Ends Of The Earth show.

Simon is embarking on a new journey across the UK, promising an engaging mix of personal anecdotes, unexpected twists, thrilling moments, and reflective thoughts, all interspersed with bouts of hearty laughter. His aim is to gently coax audiences out of their usual routines, encouraging them to take mild risks and revel in the beauty of nature and the vast expanse of the world.

The tour will feature exclusive behind-the-scenes content and breathtaking visuals. Simon’s goal is to inspire attendees, reminding them of the importance of embarking on new adventures and seeking out wild, life-enriching experiences.

He said: “It’s been a joy sharing new stories & laughs with audiences. I hope you get a chance to come along during 2024!”

The new tour dates come as Simon returns to BBC Two with his new show Wilderness with Simon Reeve, airing on BBC Two and iPlayer from 21 January.

It sees the adventurer head to four different wilderness locations.

Simon said: “Wild areas come in all shapes and sizes – hot, cold, mountainous, forest, ocean. The sheer variety of wild landscapes on our planet is mind-blowing and we wanted to get that across to viewers. Each episode is the result of a separate expedition and journey, and the result is four stand alone programmes, each with a different feel.”

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Simon Reeve - To The Ends Of The Earth

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Simon Reeve – To The Ends Of The Earth

Friday 1st November 2024 7:30pm

Booking and show times, november 1, 2024 7:30pm.

Princess Alexandra Auditorium

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Simon is an author and TV presenter, and one of the world’s most adventurous travellers. His unique brand of documentary film-making combines travel and adventure with current affairs, history, wildlife, culture and conservation. His journeys have taken him to more than 130 countries, across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world. 

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Simon Reeve

To The Ends of the Earth

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Simon is an author and TV presenter, and one of the world’s most adventurous travellers. His unique brand of documentary film-making combines travel and adventure with current affairs, history, wildlife, culture and conservation. His journeys have taken him to more than 130 countries, across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world.   

In 2018 Simon’s first national theatre tour was completely sold out. Now he’s returning to venues across the UK with new tales and his new tour ‘To The Ends Of The Earth’ .  

On his new UK tour Simon will offer stories, surprises, thrills, deeper thoughts and hearty laughs. He wants to nudge and encourage audiences to get out of their comfort zone, take a few gentle risks in life, and embrace the great outdoors and the wider world.  

With behind the scenes footage and stunning imagery, Simon will inspire and remind audiences that we all need more journeys in our lives, and plenty of wild experiences.  

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Non-members: £31.50 (each ticket is subject to a £1.50 booking fee)

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Simon Reeve: ‘At a Russian school the headmaster greeted us with a bottle of vodka. It wasn’t yet 9am’

The TV explorer’s career has been quite the journey, going from newspaper post boy to searching for bonobo monkeys in the rainforest

T he BBC’s great explorer Simon Reeve doesn’t like the word “adventure”. He pulls me up a couple of times over lunch when I use it to describe his trips up the Congo river, or into the Kalahari desert. “Forgive me, Tim,” he says, “but adventure is a kind of loaded term” – too many intrepid personal heroics, not enough culturally sensitive traveller, I guess. He thinks a “search for experiences” better describes his one-man quest to bring the world’s four corners into British living rooms. “As a species, we have a constant need for encounters and food and smells and sights that tweak our buttons,” he says. “We’re wired for new experiences and without them we sink into mental slumber.”

His expression of this philosophy, in London restaurant terms, is Jacuzzi , on Kensington High Street, three lunchtime floors of extravagant indoor vegetation and Italian high camp, a little like unexpectedly encountering Bruno Tonioli bearing a tray of canapes in a jungle clearing. Reeve has chosen it for our lunch for a few reasons. One because it sounded fun – he’s not been before. Two because it’s a “B-corp certified” restaurant, which means Jacuzzi adheres to the highest social and environmental standards, “super fucking right-on verging on worthy, thank you very much”. And, lastly, because it reminds him a little of a restaurant called The Vine, on Acton High Street, where his family used to go when he was a kid for a once-a-year blow-out. “It was also Mediterranean – Greek – with a very significant amount of foliage on the ceiling. So: I feel at home.”

As Patagonian gauchos and Indian Ocean spear fishermen and Aussie camel-herders have discovered, it’s impossible not to warm to Reeve. He’s all curiosity and emotional intelligence and grin. While Dean Martin reminds us over the speaker system of the multiple definitions of “amore”, he scans the drinks menu for a suitably primary-coloured cocktail – “I’ll have a Golden Age, why not?” he says and then insists on full eye contact – learned from a hundred far-flung toasts – when we clink glasses.

Of all the drinking cultures he has encountered, Russia’s was by far the fiercest, he says. “I remember arriving at a Russian primary school and the headmaster greeted us by opening a bottle of vodka. It wasn’t yet 9am.” He’s learned over the years, from painful experience, how to curtail serious benders without offending the locals. “My most effective line is: ‘In our culture, we always leave the bottle half full, for the next traveller,’” he says.

When he is not in Myanmar or Somaliland, Reeve is often to be found on stage, performing a live show, with chat and slides, the kind of thing that used to be the preserve of the Royal Geographical Society. The audience questions he often gets asked are about food – offal and insects, best and worst experiences. “The fact is,” he says, “we generally survive on fairly boring, crap food, partly because we always watch the licence fee budget. And it’s not true that the best El Salvadorean chef is to be found in a village in the back of beyond. If he’s any good, he’s generally left for New York a while ago.”

Reeve used to pride himself on being able to eat anything, but now he’s asking if his vitello tonnato or lamb ragu will contain onions. “It’s intolerance, not allergy,” he reassures the excitable waiter. “No epi pens.” For 15 years from 2006, he never lost a day’s filming to illness, despite mooching about in the most hostile environments on earth. In 2021, however, he came back from Peru and was in hospital with a temperature of 42C. Doctors thought he had an infection known as “ Vietnamese time bomb ”, from a melon-sized swelling on his leg. It was eventually downgraded to something a bit less apocalyptic, but not before he had been entirely flushed out with antibiotics. His “beloved gut bacteria’’ were a casualty. He discussed, he says, the possibility of faecal transplants with his doctor, to fast track the return of his iron constitution. There was talk of hooking him up with the local queen of shit swapping, “apparently an overweight woman in her 40s who existed on an exclusive diet of fast food”. Tests suggested, however, that the process wouldn’t work for him, so he’s stuck with an onion intolerance.

Our starters arrive, and it seems a moment to change the subject. Reeve’s most recent BBC series – he’s done 30 – was a four-part mission in search of authentic wilderness which, among other places, took him to glaciers in Argentina and in search of bonobo monkeys in the equatorial rainforest. The idea, he says, was to offer a hopeful take on the planet, locating areas that were still untouched by humans.

In the event, his team slightly underestimated the presence of humanity: “But what do we expect with a planet of 7 billion?” The positivity came instead from “seeing humans living in relative harmony with their planet”. The great thing about meeting remote indigenous people was that “in a place where nature is overwhelming and challenging, the inclination was not to see other people as a threat. It was more: come on in!”

Reeve gets criticised both for his air miles and for being a middle-aged white man abroad. He makes a robust defence on both counts. First, that journalism, reporting how people live, “is among the most moral reasons to travel” and second, tourism, “done responsibly and appropriately, remains the best way to protect places that desperately need dosh”.

I’m interested that, even sipping his exuberant cocktail, he describes himself as “glass half empty”. He has suffered from depression since his wayward teenage years – he skipped school to drink with his mates and left with no qualifications. He lives these days in a house on Dartmoor with his wife and son, and he’s not proud of the fact that he’s “definitely the most tricky person in the family”. This understanding of his own complication and vulnerability, conversely, makes him the best of listeners. “I can [meet] an Australian Gold Coast biker gang or get drunk with the president of Moldova,” he says. “The one gift I’ve been given, I think, is that I’ve got a lot of emotion about people in their situations; that’s what I try to communicate.”

He fell into this life after his dad, a teacher, encouraged him to apply for a job in the post room of the Sunday Times . From there, given his charm and determination, it was a short step to being sent to, say, infiltrate neo-Nazi groups in Lincolnshire; in his 20s, before anyone had really heard of Osama bin Laden, he had written the first book-length account of al-Qaida ; 9/11 meant he was much in demand. “So much in life is luck,” he says. “Traditionally, newsrooms were a good home for people like me; they could let young people take chances and risks.”

In his stage show he reflects on his rapid transformation from “lost, suicidal, unemployed lovelorn teen”. Having witnessed rites of passage embedded in cultures across the world, he despairs of how a generation in this country seems doomed to delay a proper start in life, largely because of the insanity of the cost of somewhere to live.

He has to be careful in expressing too much of this in political terms in his programmes, but he hopes the truths he finds, about community and co-operation and sustainability, are self-evident.

It’s pretty clear, in this country, here he says, that we lack politicians who can articulate something like a national mission statement. “Like: what the hell are we here for? What goal are we working towards? If we think about it, that has to be: we want to hand over a better world to our kids. Yet we seem to be doing completely the opposite.”

Towards the end of our lunch, Reeve warms to all these themes and plenty more. It’s a bit like watching his programmes over the years, I suggest – his journeys seem to have become more rather than less urgent. How does he avoid getting jaded?

“Honestly, I’m like a goldfish,” he says, laughing. “Wherever I am, it always feels like, ‘Oh my God. I’ve never been anywhere like this before!’ I hear stories about how cynical some presenters get after a few programmes. That’s not me. I can never wait to experience the next thing.” On cue, he offers a minor example of this fact with the arrival of a dessert called nice pear, a name which does scant justice to a massive bowl of fruit and cream and fondant chocolate. “Wow, wow!” Reeve says, delighted. “Look at that.” And then, with each spoonful, he adds plenty more wows for good measure.

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