111. Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As the timber creaked under the pressure of the Antarctic ice, Shackleton knew his voyage aboard the Endurance was doomed. What the ice gets, the ice keeps. And so followed one of the most obscenely daring - to the point stupidity - and heroic rescue attempts. Shackleton was determined to leave no man behind, so he set off on the high seas on a tiny lifeboat, with a few men, and no navigational equipment, in the hope he could bring back a bigger ship to save his men. But did he succeed? Listen as William and Anita are once again joined by Gabrielle Walker to finish the story of Shackleton and his absurd bravery in the Endurance expedition. For bonus episodes, ad-free listening, reading lists, book discounts, a weekly newsletter, and a chat community. Sign up at https://empirepod.supportingcast.fm/ Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: [email protected] Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you want access to bonus episodes reading lists for every series of empire, a chat community,
0:06.7	discounts for all the books mentioned in the week's podcast, add free listening and a weekly
0:11.5	newsletter, sign up to Empire Club at
0:14.4	W.
0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me to Empire with me Anita Arlen.
0:33.0	And me, William Drump.
0:35.0	We are once again joined by Gabriel Walker, my friend not Williams,
0:38.0	author, scientist, adventurer, public speaker.
0:41.0	He's trying to steal her right from under my nose. It is shameless and one of our ships
0:46.8	one of our three ships of Christmas is HMS endurance and in the last episode do forgive us with it. We spent a long time and I hope you enjoyed it talking
0:53.1	about Antarctica and the character of the men who were trying to conquer it but now
0:58.8	we're going to focus in because you last left a scare reel you you minx, with a ship that was gripped in the ice and it's slowly being crushed.
1:10.0	You could hear the timber's crack, is that what's going on, is that sort of thing? You can totally hear the timbers crack, is that what's going on, is that sort of thing?
1:13.4	You can totally hear the timbers' crack.
1:15.5	So you imagine these guys, they're on their way to the imperial trans-Antartic
1:18.9	expedition.
1:19.4	The plan is to walk across Antarctica, to regain their great great the glory for the British Empire and
1:24.8	indeed for an Ashackleton who hasn't quite managed to succeed in his previous attempts to do
1:29.0	something dramatic there and the ship has been caught by the ice and they're inside it and the ice is just moving them along and you can hear the creeks, you can hear the creeks and groans of the ice all around, but you can hear the ship's timbers.
1:41.6	The ship's timbers, it's such a good phrase that.
1:44.4	Aye, aye, it's a pirate phrase isn't it?
1:47.8	Shiver me timbers.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jack Davenport, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jack Davenport and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.