An Evening With... Alex Bescoby and Last Overland

Tuesday 17th October 2023

An Evening With... Alex Bescoby and Last Overland

Alex Bescoby is the man who made the Last Overland expedition a reality. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer and presenter with a passion for adventure and a love of history, travel and storytelling, Alex is a Cambridge University history and politics graduate and has written for BBC News, the Telegraph, National Geographic and Lonely Planet. His films have been shown by global broadcasters including BBC, All4, History, Discovery & Canal+.

Alex has kindly offered to spend an evening at Dunsfold and share with us the story of how he was inspired by the 1955 Oxford-Cambridge Expedition, how he made contact with Tim Slessor, original expedition member and author of the book ‘First Overland’, and how together they planned an epic recreation of the original trip, this time from Singapore to London. Their goal was to complete the legendary journey started more than sixty years ago in the original Oxford Land Rover.

In awe of the unstoppable Tim, and haunted by his own grandfather’s decline, Alex and his team soon found themselves battling rough roads, breakdowns, and Oxford’s constant leaky roof to discover a world changed for the better – and worse – since the first expedition.

Join us at the Dunsfold Collection at 6pm on Wednesday, 13th December for a private tour of the museum collection and hear more from Alex about this fabulous journey. Complimentary seasonal refreshments will be provided.

Book your ticket now for a minimum donation of £25. Numbers are strictly limited. Alex is very generously waiving his usual fee and all proceeds therefore go to the Collection.