Going to. The news on B.B.C. Radio Good afternoon well call only Southern Thomason here through until the fall of Monday afternoon it's B.B.C. Radio he's good to have you with us. After 3 well back in time extra time on music and news from 1976 is our featured Yeah and it is day 2 of the one second intro. A quite excited about this because I feel alone. Even though in a rather strange way that would be foolish because I know what the answer is but it's not mine you say no it's been left so I can play along a bit. Between now and the concert with Simon Reeve He's an author he's a T.V. Presenter well known a cause for making fabulous travel documentaries. Well the good news is that he's coming to play the York Barbican next month. He's done this before did it last year so successful was. That his U.K. Told us he it was a sellout in that manner that they had to put extra date some people who haven't been able to get who want to get to see it so they're doing it all again. He's backed by a huge public demand. So what counting up with Simon. To do with Tomlinson and. Demand in the N. B C. Every. And John a baby on a Monday afternoon. In a few moments time with catching up with Simon rave. Plane comes. thank you want. To see could. I. Can Have you. Can you and it's a tie. James Arthur and Emirate and rewrite the stars now summary was born in Hammersmith in London he is an author and a T.V. Presenter he's known for making travel documentaries as well as writing books on international terrorism modern history and his adventures he's presented the B.B.C. T.V. Series Tropic of Cancer equator and Tropic of Capricorn He's a New York Times best selling author of The New Jackals one day in September and Tropic of Capricorn so successful was his U.K. Theater tour last year it was a sellout it was extended by a huge public demand into $29.00 teams and it's coming to the York bar the K'NEX month now I spoke to Simon reverb I asked him how a ban from how much myth ended up being one of the best travel documentary makers we've known for the last few years I think a lot of luck in truth. I think you know I think a lot of people will put their their place in life down to hard work and sheer talent and I'm sure there's a bit of bit of that certainly was some hard work but for me it's been a lot of luck. Having a good head of hair is big. As well honestly it's often things are quite shallow I think if we're truthful. I worked hard I did you know I wrote I wrote books and that's what got me into T.V. I've been making T.V. Programmes now for about 15 years I've made more than 100 T.V. Programs mostly where I go on grand exotic adventures and they are that they really are in truth but they're also I would plane adventures into which we work can blend real issues so real stories often quite dark situations as well so you like in the shade as I call it perhaps a bit pretentiously but those are the programs I tend to make and I absolutely love doing it's been it's been an amazing privilege been a blessing in to say how. Is allowed to get there I think with good fortune in prevailing wind and taking taking opportunities when they arise that's definitely part of it I mean the travel travel side of it when did you get bitten by the travel bug and that's considered something wonderful isn't there about you know these far flung places and being able to get there and yes OK so you know you're doing it for work it's not a holiday when you get there but when did you get bitten by the idea of travel. I I suppose I got I got properly bitten or smitten with it when I 1st started filming the 1st T.V. Series I did was called Meet the stands and that was a journey around Central Asia the the stand countries to the north of Afghanistan and we went to Kazakstan karega Stanek cetera and there were a couple of moments there where I was just blown away by what I was seeing what I was doing and there were moments where I had literally had tears rolling down my cheeks it was just such such extraordinary sights and such a very alien and exotic moment to be in and I think that was when I was probably smitten by particularly with the idea of an adventure that included issues so it's always felt these programs have always felt like I'm learning something every hour of every day I'm not just going out there and complaining about my blisters or something I'm meeting people who are really inspiring and I'm learning from their stories and I'm discovering more about our world so that's what really drew me to the to the to the traveling but that was only when I started doing it for making T.V. Programmes I wasn't I don't come from a travelling background or didn't I don't come from a wealthy travelling family I didn't get on a plane until I was an adult until I started working and I went on the holidays in my twenty's with the lads and having fun and with partners as well but really proper travelling was when I started making the T.V. Programmes and it was it was a revelation Simon rave his coming to in October more from him in the next half hour as you'll see at breakfast for the last 5 years Louise has from Sally has been a travel update his Tatum that's good news actually on the M one northbound there were a few incidents between $9.00 and $4.00 Whitefield in full T. Ball everything is claimed and traffic seems to resent and all without his god at 3 year old with no we do still have delays because merely a police incident on Huntington road I just seems to back in on C. 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And give me all your love and so back the chat with even a few moments time is heading our way he's coming to play the. Part of his toll which was sold out last year. Extra dates added more people want to say and hear what he had to say and that's why he's been touring again this year across the country so he's running in New York middle of October so a catch up with Simon or even a few moments time off life. When Westlife and. Now we're hearing from. Born in how Miss Smith has an all 3 as a T.V. Presenter he's a book righties well known for writing books on international terrorism in modern history and obviously biz adventures his travels around the world we know him of course as a maker of fumble. Travel documentaries is Byzantine B.B.C. T.V. Series including Tropic of Cancer equator Tropic of Capricorn he's touring the country he did this last year so successful it was his coming back and is doing it again this year and he's dropping in the York Barbican next month so I got the chance to speak to Simon Reeve earlier we'd spoken about how he got into trouble in the 1st place and of course as a travel documentary maker it's things that happen around the world that will have some influence and one of them for him mentioning a cause that he's already an established author of books on international terrorism I asked him how significant the terror attacks of 911 were for him and to some degree was this a turning point in his career it did it did I think turning point is completely spot on those moments when When life changes and of course. It changed very dramatically in very fatally and very awfully for thousands and millions and tens of millions of people around the world it's one of those events that shaped everybody's modern existence no less in my personal case I had written a book about Osama bin Ladin I'd written a book about al Qaeda that came out in the late 1990 so a few years before 911 and that book had warned that we were entering a new age of apocalyptic terrorism and nobody really took any notice of it and the book just sort of disappeared frankly but then $911.00 happened and I'd written the only book in the world about the group responsible so I was suddenly thrust into the main into onto the media into the middle as it were or into that into the biggest news story in the world at that time and I had T.V. Crews camped outside where I was living you know there was a desperate desire by the media to find people who knew. About what was going on and what had happened so I was thrust on the on the T.V. To talk about it and that's how I come to be making these T.V. Programs now because I would appear in a T.V. News studio mainly in America mainly on the big American networks but then I started talking with the B.B.C. About making programmes for the B.B.C. Not just appearing in them and that was my the start of my white T.V. Career as it were in inverted commas but you know it's never been an ongoing job as it were each each time I've got to try and come up with an idea and put it to the B.B.C. And see if they like it and they have a think and decide if the viewers will put up with me again and it just shows how tolerant Britain saw that I'm still doing this years later because I can't bear the sound of my own voice. So what do you want the viewer to get out of when we all travel documentaries that. Well I cringe slightly that I mean it's this is the spot on question to ask of course but it feels very pompous in answering but I suppose if you if you forgive me what I would like is for them to learn a bit about our world as much as anything a bit of wander a bit of interest a bit of excitement that certainly the experience for me and the team who are making the programs we all feel you know we're learning something oh my goodness we say oh this is we're constantly surprised and thrilled and shocked and horrified in amazed and so we're trying to translate that streets of your hope that comes across how they see that the world is a safer more welcoming place and people are in it than generally the media will tell them but there are certainly times when I've got to get a flak jacket on because I'm going somewhere dodgy and I do want people to see the reality that our brothers and sisters on this planet are living in that place whether it's in some or in Central America or or or or the center of Africa or Europe wherever the earth is I want people to know a little bit of the reality that people are living generally the programs I make they're not about me in my experiences are not I'm very rarely moaning about my blisters it's about the people I am meeting and the lives they're living so I hope in some tiny way we give people a little bit of sense of of life as it's being lived Does that sound too pompous and pro-US but no not at all going to be a state of the job I think you know it's part of the job I struggle with in truth because it but you know I go off on these journeys and we make these programmes and we do put our all into them and we do argue and debate every word but the reach of T.V. Is incredible we'll get 345000000 people in Britain alone watching these programs and on the with the repeat and everything and then it's shown in 60 countries around the world it can really it starts making me feel a bit nervous if I think about the reality of it you know I. Do how people find it informative as it were but I also see T.V. Has got to be a bit of entertainment as well and the idea of sitting there in your front room and just going wow or look at that you've got to look at this that does it doesn't it that takes the books because yeah you know you're you're in a position where you can go to these places and not so you're doing that for me and I'm saying in my own front room I think you know wow I would love to go there so that's that's the job done isn't it it's the job done unless somebody else would do it better. There's times when I do think I am I the best person to do it because it's you know it's a real privilege but it's a hell of a responsibility as well I'm assuming there are still places you want to visit other. Well yes and no no in the sense that if it all ended tomorrow I'd be OK with that but yes if if the viewers give me the license as it were. Then then I'll happily carry on because it's an amazing thing to do and there are lots of places I would like to go to but I'd love to go to Japan out of to go to New Zealand I'd love to go to these parts of Scotland I've never visited up the noisy dark the peninsula there so I've still got an excitement as it were about seeing the world in about meeting people I don't feel jaded in that sense I'm a little bit of a goldfish in a terrible memory and I go around the bowl and it all feels fresh and new which is good really silly a little bit why die but I think that's all right I think I've still got the excitement about seeing the world in and having new experiences and I hope I hope I don't Liza do you enjoy doing the tours you know the idea of an audience with Simon rave. An Audience With Me. I can take it. OK. It's an amazing thing to do it's just so out of my out of my remit in life you know I never would have imagined that it was something I could do and when it was 1st put to me by a big cheese in the entertainment industry I thought he was my dad but I thought when he looked him up and he seemed to know what he was talking about Giles So I've gone with him on it and he put together I thought it was going to be lots of W.I. Holes you know. But he started booking these big theaters and it went well and people hang around and they ask questions because we have a Q. And A as well and nobody checks anything hard so far and I'm really grateful about that and I tell some stories and people people who seem to find it a way to spend an evening and they complain they can get tickets so we had more dates and more dates an I.P.O. Never. Really And if you get the chance in life I think it's important to take it to be. I didn't for a long time you know I had a very tricky start in life and I was very very fragile youngster and luckily I found a little bit of a path for myself in life and I talk about that and I talk about. How tricky things were for me an issue because I left school with no qualifications I didn't go to university I'm not I'm not from a silver spoon sort of background too and I think that means I don't take it for granted and if somebody says do you want to add more dates to your national theatre tour I go. Sang Yes plays Yeah you see the opportunity we've both grasping hands and I've loved it it's an amazing thing to do it really is so Harry when you're in the white. I'm traveling the length of the Americas I'm filming a T.V. Series traveling down from Alaska through to Argentina believe it or not and it's just it's again it's just a brilliant thing to do and people who say Oh well of course it's hard work isn't it yes it is but it's wonderful Yeah it's a great privilege Alaska to Argentina that's just a road trip Isn't it fabulous It would be great to see in Simon Reeve he's a period Hey there's his appearing at the in an audience with Simon Raven is coming up next month 18th of October and loving life in North Yorkshire I love it when the people are so friendly the place is amazing Bailey weekday mornings from $54.00 my favorite things to do take the dog out for a walk in the hills before relaxing with a pint can often be seen on a day trip over to the beach whether it's finally with your scarf or what. Keys are one of my favorite color signals Yorkshire is the home of Holcomb the scale of it it sums up fostering there's no doubt we're in the best country right here. In North Yorkshire B.B.C. Radio York. Mention this before of course you a bit worth repeating it we've been capturing conversations between friends and family and workmates in Scarborough all across the summer as part of the B.B.C.'s Listening Project and these conversations they've been recorded for B.B.C. Radio York going to be archived at the bit Islam is a fabulous idea or is it Julie Lewis is sitting in for Jonathan All this week and you can hear some of these conversations including the discussions about age gaps and a see swimming group in Scarborough I mean you see that written down I think was pretty obvious from the group in in Scarborough anywhere on the coast you going to I don't know maybe maybe not but I think it's the idea of a bunch of people getting together as a group and going for a swim in the sea I would imagine born of those things as well. All year now it's all right doing in the summer it's nuts about in the winter but anyway seems a great idea and in a does to be able to be on the coast and just to enjoy what the Coast has got to offer is going to be something so yes so those discussions about age gaps and the sea swimming group in the sky but you can hear the conversations as well. B.B.C. Docket U.K. Slash Listening Project they really well worth a listen so a bit more of those with Julie though is so over the next few days. It's baby's radio cassette I'm Thomas new this Monday afternoon 2nd of September we've got the latest travel news coming up in a few moments time taken as ever so from an Whitehead. You. Can. Bet on it. And. Sing. To me. Marilyn. 6 was. Close. To. Me. McFadden and Whitehead a no stop in is now coming up in the fall out today's program we're going back in time actually time on music in news from our featured year which this afternoon is 976 I will be finding out what's coming up after a fall as well on the health news Dr program and it's day 2 of the one second intro to mention this already I do feel as on playing along with you on this one because I've not heard it I would not a nearly play to myself Martha No I'm not going to play it I'm going to wait until 20 past 3 and we can all play together even though I want to slight advantage because I can see his I know the answer but I'm not good yet but it is a database that's going to 20 past right. Right now it's 5 to 3 let's get the latest on the county's road how things looking Tatum. Well not great on the public to be on the Lay's round and on a majority of the train services to be honest between need. Because of an earlier broken down train so just double check before you leave this afternoon through your We've still got delays on Huntington road because of an early police incident just around the hugh with green junction through. Traffic lights. On the A 59 high street as well if you want today isn't anything else please you give us a call on them by is 100 trouble. Radios you'll. That's Madonna and like a virgin it's B.B.C. Radio York on a Monday affluence of the final hour after days program and we're going back in time extra time to $976.00. And it's day 2 of the one second intro we're in this together I haven't got a clue what I have is a silly answer. Got a bit of a trick. The one saying of intro day 2. Coming up at 20 per story. You know how to. Cast an X. Or. Nothing even if you. Really should use it 3 I'm Richard words the cabinet is meeting this afternoon to discuss the option of calling an early general election possibly in a few days' time the B.B