Simon Reeve’s South America
TRAVELOGUE 9PM, BBC2
The adventurer returns to South America to complete his epic 4,000-mile trip from Peru to Paraguay with five new episodes. Tonight he starts his journey in the Guiana Shield, an area of pristine rainforest that spreads through Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, which is being ravaged by the illegal gold-mining trade. There, he visits a remote mining town where everything is paid for in gold, joins a former rebel fighter at his gold mine and even raids an illegal mine with the French Foreign Legion. Epic stuff. ★★★★★ HD