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.

Simon has received a One World Broadcasting Trust Award for “an outstanding contribution to greater world understanding”, the prestigious Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society, the British Travel Press Award for Broadcast Travel Programme, the John Tompkins Natural History Award from the International Moving Image Society “for extraordinary achievements” in the field of natural wildlife and history filmmaking, and the Wanderlust Favourite Travel Personality award. His books have been in the bestseller lists of both The Sunday Times and The New York Times. In 2023 the Princess Royal presented Simon with an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from the University of London.

After two decades spent making more than 100 programmes Simon has become a familiar face on the BBC, well known for his extraordinary foreign journeys. Most of Simon’s documentaries combine travel and adventure with global environmental, wildlife, and conservation issues, and have taken him across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world. Simon has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the San Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish by the President of Moldova, adopted by former headhunters, and detained for spying by the KGB.

Simon’s adventures are now shown on BBC2, BBC global channels, and by broadcasters in more than 60 countries, enthralling tens of millions of viewers.