![]() ![]() ![]() This is his story.Ĭherry is incapacitated by a psychological collapse in 1946 and starts to flash back to his past. and the youngest Englishman in Scott’s party. It concerns the search for a penguin's egg. One of the more esoteric chapters of this adventure is an amazing story of human endurance. What’s less well known is Scott took more than 30 others to Antarctica, where they spent two years conducting extensive scientific experiments, as well as preparing for the attempt on the pole. Captain Scott emerged as a tragic hero whose story has achieved almost mythical status. The race for the poles caught the popular imagination, the conquest of the South Pole in particular. ![]() The Edwardian era was called the heroic age of polar exploration and the names of Nansen, Shackleton, Amundsen and Scott have passed into legend. Narrator Barry Letts, best known for his tenure as the producer of Doctor Who, played Cherry-Garrard in the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic.Ī pre-title sequence shows Apsley Cherry-Garrard in London in 1938 struggling with his perceived culpability in Scott's death. ![]() The Worst Journey in the World is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama based on the memoir of the same name by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard. ![]()
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