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Wilderness on BBC 2 review: Simon Reeve's celebration of the wonder of nature is unbeatable

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Who’d be an adventurer? Over the course of his 20-year career, Simon Reeve has been shot at, smuggled across borders, and talked his way out of numerous hairy situations. He’s probably used up more lives than a cat, and yet he’s called Wilderness his most dangerous show yet.

Why? It’s probably to do with the remote nature of the places he’s travelling to. For in this, his latest show, Reeve is heading to what he’s called “”, the places still left (mostly) untouched by the pick ’n’ mix of problems humans tend to inflict on nature.

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