
The Last Overland: Royals & Rebels (Episode 2 - Myanmar & India)
Tim Slessor, now eighty-seven, is recreating his own 1955 record-breaking overland drive from London to Singapore, this time running the route in reverse in the same battered Land Rover. This second episode of a four-part series follows the team and their Oxford companions across Myanmar and India, two of the twenty-three countries on the itinerary. In Myanmar they mix with local royalty along roads that barely qualify as roads, and in India they find themselves caught in the middle of a tribal turf dispute. The film keeps its focus on the mechanics of the journey itself: breakdowns, border crossings, and the improvisation required to keep a decades-old vehicle running through terrain it was never designed for twice. Footage of markets, temples, and rural checkpoints gives texture to the travelogue, while Slessor's presence anchors the whole enterprise in the memory of the original 1955 trip. It plays as both an adventure series and a study in stubborn nostalgia.