In 2010, he graduated from Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, where he specialised in the history of Myanmar (Burma).

In 2017, alongside U Soe Win - the heir to Thibaw's throne - he made a short film for BBC News - Who Stole Burma's Royal Ruby?

It tells the story of what happened to Thibaw's famed Nga Mauk ruby the night he was taken into exile.

[15][16] In 2019, Bescoby began work on his first Channel 4 (UK) documentary series - The Last Overland: Singapore to London.

[17][18] It tells the story of his recreation of the 1955 Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition in the same Series One Land Rover, alongside original crew member Tim Slessor.