A Voyage to Antarctica
Episodes
Zaria Forman
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Zaria Forman, an artist who captures the beauty and fragility of Antarctica’s frozen landscapes in breathtaking pastel drawings.&n...
Meteorite-Hunting in Antarctica
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Katherin...
Robert Macfarlane
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Robert Macfarlane about the history of Western exploration and Antarctica's place as the last great wilderness on Earth.Robert Macfa...
Antarctic Rights
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if Antarctica had rights and its own voice at the international table? Alok Jha explores that question with Cormac Cullinan, environmental lawyer...
Ann Bancroft: A Polar Legend
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Lorraine Kelly
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Lorraine Kelly about her lifelong passion for Antarctica, inspired by her hero Ernest Shackleton AKA ‘The Boss’. Lorraine K...
White Mars
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Astronaut Dr Meganne Christian takes Alok Jha on a trip across the universe, to explore the many connections between Antarctica and space travel. ...
The Worst Journey in the World
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The winter before Captain Scott’s ill-fated attempt on the South Pole, his youngest team member Apsley Cherry-Garrard (known as “Cherry”) set of...
On Thin Ice
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Antarctica sea ice levels reaching record lows over the last four consecutive years, Alok Jha talks to leading glaciologist Professor Martin Sieg...
Antarctica's Apex Predators
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
George Washington Gibbs Jr.
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Leilani Raashida Henry about her father: the pioneering Antarctic explorer and civil rights leader, George Washington Gibbs Jr. ...
The Land of Ice and Fire
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Mou...
Snow Widows
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha revisits one of Antarctica’s most enduring tales of exploration with author and journalist Katherine MacInnes. Her book 'Snow Widows' tells...
The Space Gardener
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to NASA astro-botanist Jess Bunchek about growing vegetables in Antarctica – and outer space. Jess started as a botanist and agr...
Emperor Penguins
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Dr Peter Fretwell, award-winning cartographer and leading scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, about Antarctica’s most iconi...
Into the Dark Antarctic Night
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to journalist and author Julian Sancton about the harrowing and epic survival story of The Belgica: an early polar expedition gone terr...
Dinosaurs in Antarctica
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Susannah Maidment, Principal Researcher in fossil reptiles at London’s Natural History Museum, takes us 100 million years back in time to when An...
Polar Preet
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Guinness World Record-breaking polar explorer Preet Chandi MBE – known as Polar Preet – about her extraordinary, inspiring and b...
Extreme by Design
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 thriv...
All Models are Wrong
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 se...
The Ice Maiden
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to record-breaking explorer and UK Antarctic Heritage Trust's Head of Operations Sophie Montagne, one of the British Army’s Ice Maide...
Creatures of the Frozen Seas
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Marine Biologist Dr Huw Griffiths about the weird & wonderful life that is being discovered underwater in Antarctica; teaching u...
Birdgirl in Antarctica
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Mya-Rose Craig, aka Birdgirl, the British-Bangladeshi birder, race activist and environmentalist, about travelling to Antarctica and...
Dan Snow: Searching for Endurance
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to award-winning history broadcaster and best-selling author Dan Snow about being part of the Endurance22 mission and what it was like ...
Season 3 Trailer
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Season three of A Voyage to Antarctica, presenter Alok Jha (The Economist) and guests including historian Dan Snow and birder, activist and environ...
From Seals to Stormzy
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of series 2, Alok Jha talks to Polar Conservationist and explorer Prem Gill to find out what Antarctic seals and Grime music have...
Songs From the Deep
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to the award-winning writer Philip Hoare about his life-long love for and obsession with whales and their history in Antarctica. P...
Ancient Ice
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Dr Kelly Hogan, a Marine Geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey to find out what studying the remains of ancient ice sheets in...
The White Continent? - Part One
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part 1 of this special two part episode, Alok Jha talks to polar explorer Dwayne Fields: the first black Briton to walk 400 miles to the magnetic N...
The White Continent? - Part Two
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of The White Continent? Alok Jha delves further into Antarctica’s colonial history with historian Dr Ben Maddison, to discover some untold...
To Antarctica and Beyond
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha goes to Antarctica and far beyond with space plasma physicist Dr Suzie Imber. Suzie is Associate Professor in Space Physics at the Unive...
Epic Endurance
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to legendary explorer Felicity Aston about what endurance means to her. In 2012, Felicity became the first woman to ski solo acros...
Season 2 Trailer
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the second season of this podcast from the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, we’ll be delving further into the extraordinary human stories of the wild...
The Future of Antarctica
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of the series, Alok Jha talks to Professor Klaus Dodds about Antarctica’s unique geopolitical position, The Antarctic Treaty, A...
Antarctica in Mind
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this penultimate episode, Alok Jha talks with contemporary artists Peter Liversidge, Lucy Orta and Marc Rees to find out how Antarctica has inspire...
No Shops and No Hairdressers
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We hear plenty about the glories of men like Scott and Shackleton who lived in and explored Antarctica, but what about the women? This week, Alok Jha ...
How Penguins Can Predict the Future
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to conservation filmmaker Ruth Peacey about the history of penguins in the Antarctic, and what studying penguins can tell us about the ...
Professor Dame Jane Francis: Clues to the Climate Crisis
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Antarctica is at the front line of the global climate crisis; in this episode Alok Jha talks to Professor Dame Jane Francis about the history of the c...
Sir Ranulph Fiennes: To the Ice
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha talks to Sir Ranulph Fiennes about the explorers of the past, his experiences of Antarctica and what it actually takes to go there.Sir Ranulp...
A Voyage to Antarctica - Trailer
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alok Jha introduces the first series of UKAHT's new podcast A Voyage to Antarctica.To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarct...