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for BBC Radio 4 – Julian May, Producing

II A Drake’s Passage Sfx – Footsteps up steel ladder and onto deck waves and wind… #12 track 1. Though South America runs out of ground in Tierra del Fuego, the mountains of the Andes Cordillera do not end there. Rather, they slip beneath the waves of the Southern...

III A – Trinity Ice Sfx – wind and waves Our tall sailing ship Europa sets sail after dinner into the Bransfield Strait. We are bound for Trinity Island some miles to the southwest and close by the Antarctic Peninsula coast. The sunset lends the sky a rose-orange hue...

V A Port Lockroy Sfx – #9 track 19 – The wind blowing very  - Conny talking to bridge from foredeck (1:29) Klaas talks back over intercom Europa is cupped within a narrow bay, close under the lee of high ice cliffs of Weinke Island but, even here, the vicious...

IVA Paradise Harbour Our tall ship Europa ghosts down the Errera Channel beneath piebald peaks in a blare of morning light, sails furled, steaming slow ahead. We voyage along the Antarctic Peninsula, almost to 65 degrees South latitude now. Rounding a bend in the...