Antarctica: Deadly Allure

This features Antarctic exploration after the heroic years of Scott, Shackleton and Mawsom but before the technological age. It interweaves a personal story of discovery in Antarctica in the ’60s with the lives and deaths of those who were tragically lost and the creation of monuments to them. In 1944 Britain became the first country to build a permanent scientific base in Antarctica and the subsequent 40 years were characterised by small groups of men living in tiny remote huts, through lo...