In this first episode, he revisits some of those amazing encounters, from the Burmese human rights campaigner who took him on a dangerous undercover mission into the country in 2010, to the homeless woman he met living inside a railway bridge just a few miles from the glamorous streets of Hollywood. The journeys have taken him from a £10,000-a-night hotel in Mexico to eating soup made from zebu (ox) penis in Madagascar. And most movingly of all, Simon catches up with a ten-year-old boy he met working in terrible conditions in a glass factory in Bangladesh and finds out what has happened to him ten years later.

In this second programme, Simon focuses on some of the dodgiest and most dangerous situations he has found himself in while travelling the globe.

Simon focuses on some of the incredible wildlife stories he has encountered, such as the eccentric Yorkshireman who founded a giant tortoise sanctuary on his island in the Seychelles.

Simon looks at his journeys through some of the world’s most spectacular and unspoilt wildernesses, and reflects on the huge challenges faced when trying to protect them.