A Voyage to Antarctica
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<p>Journalist and broadcaster <strong>Alok Jha</strong> talks to leading explorers, scientists, conservationists and artists about Antarctica’s fascinating past, present and future, to discover why the icy continent matters to us all.</p><br><p>Created by the <strong>UK Antarctic Heritage Trust</strong> to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica. UKAHT is a charity, championing the public understanding of, and engagement with Antarctica through the history of human endeavour in the region. UKAHT looks after British historic sites and artefacts in Antarctica and invests in global public programmes and education; enabling more people to discover, understand, value and protect this precious wilderness. </p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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April 29, 2026
Zaria Forman
<p><strong>Alok Jha </strong>talks to <strong>Zaria Forman</strong>, an artist who captures the beauty and fragility of Antarctica’s frozen landscapes in breathtaking pastel drawings. </p><br><p>Zaria travels to remote regions of the world to collect images and inspiration for her work, which is exhibited worldwide. She has flown with NASA on several Operation IceBridge missions over Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic Canada. She was featured on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, PBS, and BBC. She delivered a TEDTalk, and spoke at Amazon, Google, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, exhibited in Banksy’s Dismaland, and was the artist-in-residence aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica. She curated the first ever, permanent, polar art exhibitions aboard Lindblad Expeditions National Geographic Endurance and the National Geographic Resolution. Her works have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, and the Smithsonian Magazine. Zaria currently works and resides in upstate New York and is represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art in New York, NY and Seattle, WA.</p><br><p>🇦🇶 SUPPORT US 🇦🇶</p><p><a href="https://shop.ukaht.org/products/donation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shop.ukaht.org/products/donation</a> </p><br><p>🐧 ADOPT A PENGUIN 🐧 </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFJVbkdKZExZeF9hS3psblpRX3o2aU1hT0Nid3xBQ3Jtc0trak9xRHp4b09WdFdMWWlwMTZjTEY4SjB2aDFkT0tydlFmb01uMEdxWG4wM0diZlBMRm1KMkpLMWZtUnpuaEpDZjNNQTVmMjJRaHF5aUVhcFlCUTg3ZExrUkJUYTVJYWNHdHFLR2JuOEExaGFuQktGbw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukaht.org%2Fshop%2Fadopt-a-penguin&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ukaht.org/shop/adopt-a-pe...</a></p><br><p>🎯 FOLLOW US 🎯</p><p>✩ YouTube: /<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ukantarcticheritagetrust" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ukantarcticheritagetrust</a></p><p>✩ Instagram:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFU1YlVzYjdrT0lfQ0EzRVlob1FfU3F5aDcwZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsa3d2bzI5T3lvdmRnY29mU0U2M1RleHRjNjVVZ3h5aERMT3J2TVhzWEtUWnV1Z2RCekVmQjJDbjVzaVoyQmUteXJuUU96WVFWT3p2UjVNdDA2UzhWcXJDWkw2OWpaV2pIWXpoeFlyMllZeld4czAwVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fukantarcticheritagetrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> / ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><p>✩ Facebook:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHdrMy11ZHJvS0J4Z0NyWkZ1VjRhYnAwWW1lZ3xBQ3Jtc0trR2Y1T0E1WnUwVkVOUWlNVXlZTGhVSFJIVHJkeHNJeG9Iem95ZWNrTXNNT3c0MDlXaEtHVGNiN3laRVRqeHZseVphZ0Z5T1dSdlh5V09sZUwxWXFUQnFrSkw5aG1va2hBcTVKOTF4MFJNYmwtOHNBWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FUKAntarcticHeritageTrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">/ ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><p>✩ TikTok:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTFacU5GQnBpZ2w2Tkx1QndYYmNUSk1ZWU9Wd3xBQ3Jtc0tsVFNJLTh1WmJtdkZFcHFQM0RHUDlPWXJWRUhWemNFRnhCcm95UU9nbEU3XzRBSVYtMWIyekVFTm84X0dlQzJ3X2thQWVUZDhhcVhBbklaWVoyZnBhN283MGpNUmpWYUMwYXh5eS1RM21XRk1YbE11MA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40ukantarcticheritagetrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> / ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><br><p>Season 6 of A Voyage To Antarctica is made possible by support from HX Expeditions.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 22, 2026
Meteorite-Hunting in Antarctica
<p><strong>Alok Jha</strong> talks to meteorite-hunter <strong>Katherine Joy </strong>to discover why the icy continent is one of the best places on Earth to find them. </p><br><p><strong>Professor Katherine Joy </strong>is a Professor of Lunar and Planetary Sciences at the University of Manchester. She received her PhD in 2007 at UCL, before taking up post-doc positions at Birkbeck College and the Lunar and Planetary Institute/NASA Johnson Space Center, and then a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and a Royal Society University Fellowship at The University of Manchester. </p><br><p>Katherine studies different types of lunar samples to understand how the Moon has geologically evolved through time and how it is a recorder of Solar System processes. She is a member of the Artemis III Geology Team, and is involved in science teams for the ESA PROSPECT and DIMPLE lunar experiments. She also co-led the first UK team working with the British Antarctic Survey to recover meteorite samples from Antarctica. </p><br><p>🇦🇶 SUPPORT US 🇦🇶</p><p><a href="https://shop.ukaht.org/products/donation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shop.ukaht.org/products/donation</a> </p><br><p>🎯 FOLLOW US 🎯</p><p>✩ YouTube: /<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ukantarcticheritagetrust" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ukantarcticheritagetrust</a></p><p>✩ Instagram:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFU1YlVzYjdrT0lfQ0EzRVlob1FfU3F5aDcwZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsa3d2bzI5T3lvdmRnY29mU0U2M1RleHRjNjVVZ3h5aERMT3J2TVhzWEtUWnV1Z2RCekVmQjJDbjVzaVoyQmUteXJuUU96WVFWT3p2UjVNdDA2UzhWcXJDWkw2OWpaV2pIWXpoeFlyMllZeld4czAwVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fukantarcticheritagetrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> / ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><p>✩ Facebook:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHdrMy11ZHJvS0J4Z0NyWkZ1VjRhYnAwWW1lZ3xBQ3Jtc0trR2Y1T0E1WnUwVkVOUWlNVXlZTGhVSFJIVHJkeHNJeG9Iem95ZWNrTXNNT3c0MDlXaEtHVGNiN3laRVRqeHZseVphZ0Z5T1dSdlh5V09sZUwxWXFUQnFrSkw5aG1va2hBcTVKOTF4MFJNYmwtOHNBWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FUKAntarcticHeritageTrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">/ ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><p>✩ TikTok:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTFacU5GQnBpZ2w2Tkx1QndYYmNUSk1ZWU9Wd3xBQ3Jtc0tsVFNJLTh1WmJtdkZFcHFQM0RHUDlPWXJWRUhWemNFRnhCcm95UU9nbEU3XzRBSVYtMWIyekVFTm84X0dlQzJ3X2thQWVUZDhhcVhBbklaWVoyZnBhN283MGpNUmpWYUMwYXh5eS1RM21XRk1YbE11MA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40ukantarcticheritagetrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> / ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><br><p>Season 6 of A Voyage To Antarctica is made possible by support from HX Expeditions.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 15, 2026
Robert Macfarlane
<p><strong>Alok Jha </strong>talks to <strong>Robert Macfarlane </strong>about the history of Western exploration and Antarctica's place as the last great wilderness on Earth.</p><br><p><strong>Robert Macfarlane</strong>’s<strong> </strong>Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling books include: Is a River Alive?, Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.</p><br><p>Macfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently working on a graphic novel re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh.</p><br><p>🇦🇶 SUPPORT US 🇦🇶</p><p><a href="https://shop.ukaht.org/products/donation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shop.ukaht.org/products/donation</a> </p><br><p>🐧 ADOPT A PENGUIN 🐧 </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFJVbkdKZExZeF9hS3psblpRX3o2aU1hT0Nid3xBQ3Jtc0trak9xRHp4b09WdFdMWWlwMTZjTEY4SjB2aDFkT0tydlFmb01uMEdxWG4wM0diZlBMRm1KMkpLMWZtUnpuaEpDZjNNQTVmMjJRaHF5aUVhcFlCUTg3ZExrUkJUYTVJYWNHdHFLR2JuOEExaGFuQktGbw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukaht.org%2Fshop%2Fadopt-a-penguin&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ukaht.org/shop/adopt-a-pe...</a></p><br><p>🎯 FOLLOW US 🎯</p><p>✩ YouTube: /<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ukantarcticheritagetrust" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ukantarcticheritagetrust</a></p><p>✩ Instagram:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFU1YlVzYjdrT0lfQ0EzRVlob1FfU3F5aDcwZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsa3d2bzI5T3lvdmRnY29mU0U2M1RleHRjNjVVZ3h5aERMT3J2TVhzWEtUWnV1Z2RCekVmQjJDbjVzaVoyQmUteXJuUU96WVFWT3p2UjVNdDA2UzhWcXJDWkw2OWpaV2pIWXpoeFlyMllZeld4czAwVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fukantarcticheritagetrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> / ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><p>✩ Facebook:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHdrMy11ZHJvS0J4Z0NyWkZ1VjRhYnAwWW1lZ3xBQ3Jtc0trR2Y1T0E1WnUwVkVOUWlNVXlZTGhVSFJIVHJkeHNJeG9Iem95ZWNrTXNNT3c0MDlXaEtHVGNiN3laRVRqeHZseVphZ0Z5T1dSdlh5V09sZUwxWXFUQnFrSkw5aG1va2hBcTVKOTF4MFJNYmwtOHNBWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FUKAntarcticHeritageTrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">/ ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><p>✩ TikTok:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTFacU5GQnBpZ2w2Tkx1QndYYmNUSk1ZWU9Wd3xBQ3Jtc0tsVFNJLTh1WmJtdkZFcHFQM0RHUDlPWXJWRUhWemNFRnhCcm95UU9nbEU3XzRBSVYtMWIyekVFTm84X0dlQzJ3X2thQWVUZDhhcVhBbklaWVoyZnBhN283MGpNUmpWYUMwYXh5eS1RM21XRk1YbE11MA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40ukantarcticheritagetrust&v=artawVMWWa8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> / ukantarcticheritagetrust </a></p><br><p>Season 6 of A Voyage To Antarctica is made possible by support from HX Expeditions.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is A Voyage to Antarctica?
<p>Journalist and broadcaster <strong>Alok Jha</strong> talks to leading explorers, scientists, conservationists and artists about Antarctica’s fascinating past, present and future, to discover why the icy continent matters to us all.</p><br><p>Created by the <strong>UK Antarctic Heritage Trust</strong> to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica. UKAHT is a charity, championing the public understanding of, and engagement with Antarctica through the history of human endeavour in the region. UKAHT looks after British historic sites and artefacts in Antarctica and invests in global public programmes and education; enabling more people to discover, understand, value and protect this precious wilderness. </p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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