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Season 2 Episode 5
In February 2022, Charlie Walker flew to Russia to travel 600 miles alone across Arctic Siberia. Five days later, Russia invaded Ukraine. He had a na…
13 hours ago
Theodore Roosevelt's Last Great Adventure: The River of Doubt
Season 2 Episode 4
In 1914, former US President Theodore Roosevelt nearly died in the Amazon. Feverish and delirious from an infected wound, he asked his son to leave h…
1 week ago
Dismasted in the Southern Ocean: Lisa Blair's Solo Record Around Antarctica
Season 2 Episode 3
Seventy-two days into her attempt to sail solo around Antarctica, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest land, Lisa Blair's mast came down in a storm…
2 weeks ago
Scott vs. Amundsen: Triumph and Tragedy (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 2
March 1912. Roald Amundsen has beaten Scott to the South Pole, outrun the winter ice, and telegraphed his triumph around the world. But back on the i…
3 weeks ago
Scott vs. Amundsen: The Race to The South Pole Begins (Part 1)
Season 2 Episode 1
June 1910. Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets sail from Cardiff aboard the Terra Nova, convinced he has a clear run at the South Pole. Then a telegram …
4 weeks ago
Win a £100 Arthur Beale voucher - What do you want to hear in series 2?
Season 1
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Series 2 is coming. But first - we want to hear from you.
Which adventures should we cover next? Whi…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Sailing Solo Around the World Like It's 1968: The Golden Globe Race
Season 1 Episode 10
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the first solo nonstop race around the world. Only one crossed the finish line. Sir Robin Knox-Johnston returned abo…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Gino Watkins: The Greatest Explorer You've Never Heard Of
Season 1 Episode 9
In 1930, a 24-year-old Cambridge undergraduate named Gino Watkins led fourteen men to the east coast of Greenland on one of the most ambitious Arctic…
4 months ago
Solo to the North Pole: Pen Hadow
Season 1 Episode 8
Pen Hadow appears by arrangement with DBA Speakers www.dbaspeakers.com
In 2003, Pen Hadow became the first person to trek solo and without resupply fr…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Lost Franklin Expedition: What Really Happened?
Season 1 Episode 7
In 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England with 129 men and two of the Royal Navy's finest ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to chart the last un…
4 months, 2 weeks ago