MODERN-DAY explorer Ben Fogle will share thrilling tales from the wilderness in a new show at The Hexagon in Reading next year.

From crossing Antarctica to conquering Everest, Ben is set to take audiences on an inspiring adventure when he appears at the Queens Walk theatre on March 25, 2020.

Ben has climbed Everest, been swimming with crocodiles, saved elephants, dodged pirates, been marooned for a year on an uninhabited island, walked to the South Pole, crossed the Empty Quarter with camels, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, tracked the migration of the Wilderbeest, swum from Alcatraz, had a flesh eating disease and messed around with ferrets.

He has also completed the six-day Marathon des Sables for the World Wide Fund for Nature across 160 miles of the Sahara Desert and the Safaricom Marathon in Kenya for the Tusk Trust, with Longleat Safari Park keeper Ryan Hockley.

The much-loved TV adventurer will recount, with warmth and honesty, his thrilling tales to captivated audiences.

The 45-year-old’s first TV appearance was back in 2000, when he took part in the BBC reality show Castaway 2000. A social experiment, it followed a group of 36 people marooned on the Scottish island on Taransay for a year.

Since then, he has become a well-known face on TV, working for the BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Sky, Discovery and the National Geographic channels in the UK.

He has hosted shows such as Crufts, One Man and His Dog, Countryfile, Country Tracks, Extreme Dreams with Ben Fogle, Animal Park, Wild on the West Coast, Wild in Africa, “Ben Fogle – African Migration” and Ben Fogle’s Escape in Time.

The UN Patron of the Wilderness, the father-of-two has travelled the world, has published 10 bestselling books and his TV shows are a global hit watched by millions around the world.

Ben’s multimedia show comes to Reading on March 25, 2020.

Tickets are priced at £29.50 and are available online at www.readingarts.com/hexagon.

You can also buy them by calling the box office on 0118 960 6060.