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Simon is credited as an executive producer of the Amazon Prime three-part documentary series, The Balkans. The series takes viewers on a journey through the Balkans, as Cameron Ashplant discovers the true identity of the region and its people. The series was released on Prime in April 2020.

In this two-part series broadcast on BBC Two in March and April 2017, Reeve visits Turkey, with highlights including Ankara, Istanbul, the Taurus Mountains and the Black Sea.

This three-part series was first broadcast in September and October 2017 on BBC Two. It sees Simon Reeve travel across Russia, starting in Kamchatka and ending in Saint Petersburg. In the first episode Reeve finds out about indigenous cultures, the influence exerted by China in Vladivostok, conservation and climate change. He also finds himself being watched by the police. The second episode begins at Lake Baikal, followed by a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Over the course of the episode, Reeve meets Cossacks, a man claiming to be the re-incarnated Christ, tightrope walkers and Tuvan throat singers, among others. Episode three sees Reeve finish his journey in the west of the country, investigating the repercussions of the Russian annexation of Crimea and visiting Moscow, Saint Petersburg and villages in between.

In this two-part series broadcast on BBC Two in February 2016, Reeve visits the islands of Kos, Lesbos and Crete, and the capital city of Athens, while also travelling from the Peloponnese peninsula in the south to the mountainous northern regions of Greece.

This three-part series was broadcast in spring 2015 on BBC Two. In the first, Reeve explores Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the United States' territory of Puerto Rico, while in the second, he visits Barbados, St Vincent and the Caribbean coastlines of Venezuela and Colombia. His final leg sees him travel up the Caribbean coast of Central America, including Honduras, before ending in Jamaica.

In a two-part series broadcast on BBC Two in November 2015, Reeve explores the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, examining the island's rich history, culture and beliefs, but also its complex and troubled past.

In January 2013, Reeve appeared in a charity special of The Great British Bake Off.

In this six-part BBC TV series – broadcast during 2012 – Reeve travelled around the edge of the Indian Ocean.

The series was broadcast in three parts on BBC Two in December 2013. In three episodes Reeve travelled through Europe to the Holy Land in Israel. He retraced the route of ancient pilgrims.

A six-part television series in which Reeve travelled around the Tropic of Cancer, the northern border of the Earth's tropical region. After travelling around the Tropic of Capricorn and Equator, this series completed Reeve's trilogy of journeys exploring the tropics. Starting on the Pacific coast of Mexico, Reeve followed the Tropic of Cancer almost 37,000 kilometres. The journey took him through 18 countries, ranging from Mexico and Mauritania, to Bangladesh and the Bahamas. The first episode aired on 14 March 2010. The series was broadcast on BBC TV in the UK, by broadcasters in more than 40 countries and by BBC World News globally.

A four-part series for BBC Two broadcast from 25 January to 15 February 2009 in the UK. Leading a team of reporters in journeys of discovery to some of the most colourful and intense locations on earth, Explore blended travel with current affairs. The tag line for the series was "Don't just visit... Explore!" Programmes include: Patagonia to the Pampas, Africa's Great Rift Valley, Istanbul to Anatolia and Manila to Mindanao. Issues covered in the series range from forced farming to global fashion retailers, World Heritage rice terraces to dwindling honey industries, extreme hunger to extreme football. The visit to Manila included a special interview with Imelda Marcos in which she unwittingly shared a document with Reeve which showed that her late husband, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, had holdings worth $US937 billion deposited with a bank in Brussels. Imelda immediately tried to salvage the gaffe but it was already caught on camera.

Tropic of Capricorn is a four-part 2008 BBC documentary series in which Reeve tracked the southern edge of the tropics region around the world. The series, and the accompanying book, also written by Reeve, outlined his journey through Southern Africa, Madagascar, Australia and across South America. Reeve crossed the Andes Mountains, the Namib, Kalahari and Atacama deserts.

Equator is a three-part BBC documentary first broadcast in September 2006 in which Reeve followed 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. The series was the Silver Award winner at the 2007 Wanderlust Travel Awards. Reeve contracted malaria while filming this series.

Places That Don't Exist was Reeve's 2005 award-winning five-part series on breakaway states and unrecognised nations, broadcast on BBC Two and broadcasters internationally. Among the countries Reeve visited for this series were Somaliland, Transnistria (where Reeve was detained for 'spying' by the FSB), Nagorno-Karabakh, Ajaria, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Somalia, Moldova and Taiwan. He also visited Mogadishu, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

A one-off BBC Two and BBC World documentary filmed inside Saudi Arabia, written and presented by Reeve. The journey took Reeve across Saudi Arabia, from the cities of Jeddah and Riyadh to the vast Empty Quarter desert. Participants ranged from Saudi princes and Islamic militants, to teenage girls and Osama bin Laden's former best friend. It was broadcast in 2004.

Meet the Stans is a four-part BBC Two and BBC World series on Central Asia, written and presented by Reeve. In the series Reeve travelled 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.

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".

One Day in September was published in 2000 and deals with the Munich massacre and subsequent events like the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 615 and the covert Israeli retaliation operation dubbed Wrath of God. The book outlines the siege and the massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics, in which 11 Israeli athletes and officials were murdered by Palestinian group Black September, and also focuses on the aftermath. The book expands on a documentary film of the same name, directed by Kevin Macdonald, which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2000.

Reeve is the New York Times' best-selling author of The New Jackals (1998), One Day in September (2000) and Tropic of Capricorn (2007). He has received a One World Broadcasting Trust Award and the 2012 Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society.

While working as an investigative writer, Reeve began studying the 1993 World Trade Center bombing just days after the attack. His research formed the basis for a book, The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, published in the UK and USA in 1998. The New Jackals was the first book on bin Laden.

Simon Alan Reeve (born 21 July 1972) 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.