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10 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
Episode 2
50 mins
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) accompanies the Overland team along a circuitous route used by heavy military vehicles. In Stanytsia Luhansk where war is being waged on a daily basis, they meet locals, before continuing through the harsh Russian winter to Moscow. Here they visit the city's imposing military monuments, then head to the Caspian Sea to meet local Cossacks.
Episode 3
51 mins
With the good Russian roads behind them, the Overland team enters the Asian Continent at oil-rich Kazakhstan. Here the dramatic lunar landscape and a meal with locals offer a completely new and surprising vision of the country. Then it's onto Uzbekistan, the second-largest cotton producer in the world where they see first-hand the results of the man-made environmental disaster - the Aral Sea.
Episode 4
52 mins
Driving through the Kaliburan, a desert sandstorm, we reach Bukhara. Its towering Minaret was spared the fury of Genghis Khan, who was wonderstruck by such beauty. We are now in to the heart of our journey. On the very night we enter Afghanistan, in Mazar-i Sharif itself, where we have our first stop, more than 250 soldiers are killed in a terrorist attack.
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
52 mins
Dunes and expanses of sand as far as the eye can see: the Dasht-e Kavir desert is the right place to have some fun with our vehicles and put the ability of the Overland drivers to the test.
Episode 9
Episode 10
114 mins
This television travel diary is narrated by Beppe and Filippo Tenti, one of the best-loved father and son duos in television history. Together they engage the audience and invite them onboard their orange vehicles, for a fascinating succession of discoveries, wonders, and also difficulties and dangers. Traveling in convoy, the Overland team travel 30,000 kilometres in three months.