'HMS Terror & Erebus: Michael Palin on Polar Exploration and Disasters'

In this video, globetrotter, author and comedian Michael Palin answers quickfire questions on polar exploration, history and travel.

Dan Snow, who is soon to head to the Antarctic in search of Sir Ernest Shackleton's shipwreck Endurance, asks Michael for his advice on travelling to the polar regions. He also discovers what historically themed sketches never made the cut for the Monty Python movies.

Palin has recently turned his talents to maritime history, writing a biography of the sailing vessel, HMS Erebus. Elucidating two very different exploratory voyages, Palin recounts the pioneering successes of James Clark Ross’ passage to the Great Southern Barrier and the tragic outcome of John Franklin’s command to the Arctic.

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