A Voyage to Antarctica

Zaria Forman

Alok Jha talks to Zaria Forman, an artist who captures the beauty and fragility of Antarctica’s frozen landscapes in breathtaking pastel drawings.  Zaria travels to remo

Meteorite-Hunting in Antarctica

Alok Jha talks to meteorite-hunter Katherine Joy to discover why the icy continent is one of the best places on Earth to find them. Professor Katherine Joy is a Profess

Robert Macfarlane

Alok Jha talks to Robert Macfarlane about the history of Western exploration and Antarctica's place as the last great wilderness on Earth. Robert Macfarlane’s Sunday Tim

Antarctic Rights

What if Antarctica had rights and its own voice at the international table? Alok Jha explores that question with Cormac Cullinan, environmental lawyer, author, and advoca

Ann Bancroft: A Polar Legend

Alok Jha talks to pioneering explorer Ann Bancroft: the first woman to have skied to both North and South poles.   Ann joined the 1986 Steger International Polar Expedit

Lorraine Kelly

Alok Jha talks to Lorraine Kelly about her lifelong passion for Antarctica, inspired by her hero Ernest Shackleton AKA ‘The Boss’.  Lorraine Kelly is a Scottish televisi

White Mars

Astronaut Dr Meganne Christian takes Alok Jha on a trip across the universe, to explore the many connections between Antarctica and space travel.  Meganne is a member of

The Worst Journey in the World

The winter before Captain Scott’s ill-fated attempt on the South Pole, his youngest team member Apsley Cherry-Garrard (known as “Cherry”) set off across the ice in the mi

On Thin Ice

With Antarctica sea ice levels reaching record lows over the last four consecutive years, Alok Jha talks to leading glaciologist Professor Martin Siegert about glaciology

Antarctica's Apex Predators

Dr Leigh Hickmott takes Alok Jha up close and personal with Antarctica’s most fearsome resident: the killer whale, which Leigh calls ‘the apex and most adept predator on

George Washington Gibbs Jr.

Alok Jha talks to Leilani Raashida Henry about her father: the pioneering Antarctic explorer and civil rights leader, George Washington Gibbs Jr.  Born in Florida during

The Land of Ice and Fire

Alok Jha talks to world-renowned volcanologist and filmmaker Clive Oppenheimer. More people have been to space than have set eyes on the depths of Mount Erebus in Antarct

Snow Widows

Alok Jha revisits one of Antarctica’s most enduring tales of exploration with author and journalist Katherine MacInnes. Her book 'Snow Widows' tells the story of the race

The Space Gardener

Alok Jha talks to NASA astro-botanist Jess Bunchek about growing vegetables in Antarctica – and outer space.  Jess started as a botanist and agronomist and, after comple

Emperor Penguins

Alok Jha talks to Dr Peter Fretwell, award-winning cartographer and leading scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, about Antarctica’s most iconic residents – Emperor

Into the Dark Antarctic Night

Alok Jha talks to journalist and author Julian Sancton about the harrowing and epic survival story of The Belgica: an early polar expedition gone terribly wrong – with a

Dinosaurs in Antarctica

Dr Susannah Maidment, Principal Researcher in fossil reptiles at London’s Natural History Museum, takes us 100 million years back in time to when Antarctica was a rainfor

Polar Preet

Alok Jha talks to Guinness World Record-breaking polar explorer Preet Chandi MBE – known as Polar Preet – about her extraordinary, inspiring and boundary-breaking achieve

Extreme by Design

Alok Jha talks to award-winning polar architect Hugh Broughton, to find out what it takes to design buildings where people can live – and even thrive –  in the world’s mo

All Models are Wrong

Alok Jha talks to climate scientist Dr Tamsin Edwards about how her pioneering work in modelling the impact of ice sheet and glacier melt on rising sea levels is predicti