Old news but still a great listen
SINGAPORE OVERLAND Fifty years ago travelling overland from England to Singapore was a journey waiting to happen. Nowadays, because of the political situations in the countries in between, it is a trip that can no longer be done. But two expeditions did complete the journey in the nineteen fifties, one from London to Singapore in Land Rovers and, a couple of years later, a second in a Jeep in the other direction.
Roy Follows and Pat Murphy, members of each expedition talk to Shyama Perera about the difficulties and dangers of the travelling through bandit country, driving heavy vehicles over bridges designed for donkeys and through the already virtually closed country of Burma.