British documentary film maker, author to speak at Lodgepole library

British documentary film maker and author Tim Slessor will speak at the Nancy Fawcett Memorial Library in Lodgepole on Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. The appearance is part of Chadron State College's pilot Practitioner-in-Residence program.

Slessor's presentation is titled "Immigrants," and is free and open to the public.

After military service in Britain's Green Berets, Slessor went "up" to Cambridge. Three years later, on graduation, he set out with five friends to drive overland from the English Channel to Singapore – in two works-provided Land Rovers.

The three documentaries they shot were shown on BBC,...