when was simon reeve tropic of cancer filmed

Simon Reeve’s series Tropic of Cancer was filmed in the late 2000s, with production taking place shortly before its first broadcast on BBC Two in March–April 2010.

When it was filmed

• The series first aired on BBC Two starting 14 March 2010, running through late April 2010, which places the main filming period in roughly 2008–2009, as is typical for this kind of multi‑country documentary.

• Official descriptions present it as the final part of a trilogy “five years in the making,” covering his Equator, Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer journeys, which supports a late‑2000s filming window before the 2010 broadcast.

Quick context about the series

• Tropic of Cancer is a BBC travel and current‑affairs documentary following Simon Reeve as he travels around the line of the Tropic of Cancer, visiting 18 countries from Mexico across North Africa and Asia to Hawaii.

• The first UK broadcast was in 2010 as a six‑episode series, each about an hour long, on BBC Two and BBC HD.

Why exact filming dates aren’t public

• The BBC and related databases list transmission (air) dates but do not publish a precise day‑by‑day filming schedule for each country or episode.

• Given the scale (23,000‑mile journey across many countries), filming would have been spread over many months, likely across multiple seasons in 2008–2009, before editing and the 2010 release.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.