Great British Ships: Scott & Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure: The Discovery


6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 26 on 5SELECT (46)

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Scott & Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure: The Discovery
Season 2, Episode 3

Rob Bell boards the ship that kick started the age of polar exploration as he looks at the history of RRS Discovery, the world's first purpose-built scientific vessel. Heading to the Victorian shipbuilding capital of Dundee, Rob finds out why this was the only place in Britain that could make a ship capable of taking on the formidable ice floes of Antarctica, and tells the story of how a chance meeting in London would define the course of polar exploration


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Rob Bell (Presenter)
Robert Marsden (Producer)
Fred Hepburn (Executive producer)
David Dugan (Executive producer)

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Rob Bell (Presenter)
Robert Marsden (Producer)
Fred Hepburn (Executive producer)
David Dugan (Executive producer)