Sun, 9 December 2018
Byrd gets on my nerves ninety years ago.
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Wed, 14 November 2018
The first of the on site recordings for this Austral summer, episode 072 examines the preparations made to finally take aviation south and the echoes of Scott and Amundsen that resonate through the stories of Byrd and Wilkins. |
Mon, 1 October 2018
The final full episode arising from my trip to Hobart. Ron Hann, Peter Reid and Rob Nash speak about their time in Antarctica and I bloviate about my favourite podcasts. |
Sun, 30 September 2018
The second tranche of interviews from my time at the Australian Antarctic Festival in Hobart. Barry Becker, Denise Alan and Trevor Luff discuss their time with ANARE and I look forward to seeing Dr Brewin in December. |
Sun, 30 September 2018
A look at practical, political and ecological developments arising as the whaling fleet, largely comprising Norwegian vessels and crews, set about the business of ridding the Southern Ocean of those pesky cetaceans. |
Mon, 10 September 2018
Four of the interviews I recorded at the 2018 Australian Antarctic Festival in Hobart. |
Sat, 1 September 2018
Bringing to a close the trilogy of Arctic aviation episodes, this episode ties up loose ends sufficient to fully set the aviation scene for the first flights in Antarctica. |
Tue, 31 July 2018
Flying in the Arctic posed a dodgy prospect but faint heart never ended up dead on a tundra. |
Fri, 13 July 2018
With aircraft offering opportunities to keep the feet dry and singalling a possible end to the miseries of sledging in all its forms, key players were keen to get flying. Efforts in the north require some attention as the experiences in the Arctic shaped the approach those key players took when they brought flying machines south. |
Sat, 30 June 2018
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Sat, 30 June 2018
Sir Ernest makes his final alive foray to South Georgia before making two further Atlantic voyages while dead. |
Tue, 19 June 2018
With Sir Hubert Wilkins set to take a prominent role in several episodes I sat down for coffee and a chat with Jeff Maynard, who knows more about Australia's forgotten polar explorer than I know about most of my family. |
Mon, 4 June 2018
Boom! |
Fri, 1 June 2018
Many Antarctic veterans served in the First World War. This episode I outline the military service of several of those veterans who will make return appearances in the south. |
Fri, 4 May 2018
The various parties of the ITAE come in out of the cold and most of them immediately head off to war. |
Tue, 3 April 2018
Frank Worsley knocks it out of the park, navigating across eight hundred nautical miles of open ocean with four sextant shots. Tom Crean breaks through thin ice for the final time in our saga.
Direct download: 058_James_Caird_where_would_have_quit.mp3
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Sat, 17 March 2018
The Endurance sinks. Plans form, change, re-form, change again, get discarded, get reinstated and re-form after changing. Hoosh is the only constant. |
Sat, 17 March 2018
The Ice eats The Endurance.
Category:History
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Tue, 20 February 2018
Sir Ernest Shackleton returns to Antarctica, this time in the Weddell Sea, where the two preceding voyages got stuck. Guess what happens. Go on, guess. |
Wed, 3 January 2018
Present day geologists offer their perspectives on the Antarctic Peninsula and I record lots of the bow pushing through loose pack because it's mesmerising. |
Mon, 1 January 2018
The Ross Ice Barrier claims its final victim of the Heroic Age as Joyce, Richards and Wild struggle to get the depot party back to safety, then McMurdo Sound takes two more lives when a gamble on the weather goes against Mackintosh and Hayward. |