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[Swprograms] Fwd: BBC World Service Additional Programme Information - Discovery - Well met in Antarctica
- Subject: [Swprograms] Fwd: BBC World Service Additional Programme Information - Discovery - Well met in Antarctica
- From: "Richard Cuff" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:09:08 -0500
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This is advance information for the edition of Discovery beginning
December 31st.
Relevant air times, taken from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/programme_times/a_d.shtml
, include:
Live webcast: Wed 1232, rpt 1632, 2032, Thu 0032, Sun 0332
Shortwave (Africa feed) Wed 1032 rpt 1332, 2132, Thu 0132
Shortwave (East Asia feed) Wed 0132 rpt 0832, 1332, 2132, Sat 0032
XM (Americas Feed) Wed 1432 rpt 2332, Thu 0432, 0932, Sun 0332
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
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Wednesday 31 December
Discovery: Well Met in Antarctica
10.30 – 11.00am
In 1902, as Captain Robert Scott was setting off on his first
expedition to Antarctica, another explorer, Swedish geologist Dr Otto
Nordenskjöld was also heading south. His story, one of the most
remarkable accounts of human survival, has rarely been told.
Otto's team was put ashore on Snowhill Island on the Antarctic
Peninsula, where they constructed a hut and prepared for winter. All
went well, until their ship, The Antarctic, captained by Carl Larsen,
attempted to pick them up the following summer. Ice blocked the way,
so a small team tried to sledge down to meet Nordenskjöld. They
failed to reach him.
Meanwhile, The Antarctic had been crushed in ice and Larsen and the
remaining crew were stranded on another island. After a second
winter, Nordenskjöld set off to trek north over the ice. Seeing what
he thought to be a group of distant penguins, he discovered that they
were members of his own crew. Within days they were reunited and made
contact with an Argentinian rescue ship.
Gabrielle Walker visits the settings for the story – Nordenskjöld's
hut on Snowhill Island, still preserved, complete with furniture and
pots and pans used by the six men to survive two Antarctic winters.
She goes to Hope Bay, which preserves the rudimentary shelter built
out of rocks and tarpaulin by the landing party that came to be
trapped themselves, and Cape Well Met, which marks the day the
explorers were re-united.
Gabrielle's account is combined with dramatic readings from
Nordensköld's biography, long out of print, which contains graphic
accounts of the expedition and its hardships.
Presenter/Gabrielle Walker, Producer/Martin Redfern
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