Talks
The 2023 – 2024 season
A list of this season’s talks appears below; click on an individual entry for more information.
- 03Oct 2023Next talk
Why We Travel
Ash Bhardwaj · Tuesday 3 October 2023, 8pm
Ash reveals different motivations for travel, and how we can use them to travel better, with anecdotes from his journeys including Everest, the Bayuda Desert and Russia’s border.
- 17Oct 2023Next talk
Following the Line
Charlie Walker · Tuesday 17 October 2023, 8pm
Charlie completed a 5,200-mile triathlon following the border between Europe and Asia, from the midwinter snowfields of the Arctic Urals to the banks of the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
- 07Nov 2023Next talk
Life Lessons from the Amazon
Pip Stewart · Tuesday 7 November 2023, 8pm
The tale of Pip’s epic three-month and world-first journey following Guyana’s Essequibo River from source to sea, with the help of guides from the Waiwai indigenous community.
- 21Nov 2023Next talk
My Exploding World
David Edwards · Tuesday 21 November 2023, 8pm
Surprising insights and dramatic photography of many of the endlessly fascinating and awe-inspiring volcanoes, including Vesuvius and others in Iceland, Hawaii and New Zealand.
- 05Dec 2023Next talk
Social & Around the World in Eighty Trains
Monisha Rajesh · Tuesday 5 December 2023, 8pm
Members’ only social evening, then Monisha discusses the highs and lows of her 45,000-mile journey around the world by train, offering stories that only trains can tell.
- 12Dec 2023Next talk
Tales from the Bush
Andy Skillen · Tuesday 12 December 2023, 8pm
Andy talks about face-to-face encounters and close calls with wildlife on his high-octane assignments worldwide, from the slopes of the Himalayas to the Patagonian steppe.
- 16Jan 2024Next talk
A Journey into Muslim Europe
Tharik Hussain · Tuesday 16 January 2024, 8pm
A journey in the footsteps of Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi through a Europe that has been home to the continent’s largest indigenous Muslim community for over six centuries.
- 30Jan 2024Next talk
Photogenic Namibia
Kav Dadfar · Tuesday 30 January 2024, 8pm
There are very few countries where one can photograph such an array of subjects as in Namibia – dunes, rock formations, amazing tribes, coastlines, wildlife...
- 13Feb 2024Next talk
The Last Overland
Alex Bescoby · Tuesday 13 February 2024, 8pm
Alex recreates one of the most challenging and iconic road journeys, the 1955 Far Eastern expedition from London to Singapore, using one of the original Land Rovers.
- 27Feb 2024Next talk
Nepal – From Crocodiles to Yaks
Chris Beynon · Tuesday 27 February 2024, 8pm
Chris sees a cross-section of Nepal from the plains by the Indian border (here be crocs) up to 3700m in Mustang (here be yaks), along with the foothills and Kathmandu valley.
- 12Mar 2024Next talk
Lone Rider
Elspeth Beard · Tuesday 12 March 2024, 8pm
A two-and-a-half-year 35,000-mile solo journey through twenty-one countries around the world by motorcycle – in the 1980s, a different era before technology.
- 26Mar 2024Next talk
On the Edge of the World
Alan Palmer · Tuesday 26 March 2024, 8pm
In the autumn of 2022, when political stability had finally been restored, Alan returned to northern Pakistan revisiting some cherished old haunts and making new discoveries.
- 09Apr 2024Next talk
Indonesia’s Spice Islands
Alex Robinson · Tuesday 9 April 2024, 8pm
Alex journeys through the astonishingly beautiful Maluku and Raja Ampat archipelagos, with teeming coral reefs, beautiful beaches and pristine rainforests alive with Birds of Paradise.
- 23Apr 2024Next talk
AGM & What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Neil Pitts · Tuesday 23 April 2024, 8pm
Following an 18-month battle with long COVID, Neil decided that he needed a challenge. So in the winter of 2022 he and two friends attempted to ski the length of Norway.
These are the main items of the programme, but they may be subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control. Other events will be announced at the meetings and in our newsletters.