

The Last Overland
2022-09-29 · 46 min / episode · ★ 9.0
Eighty-seven-year-old adventurer Tim Slessor sets out to recreate his own 1955 record-breaking drive from London to Singapore - in the same badly behaved old Land Rover. What could possibly go wrong?
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