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Voyages of Discovery Episodes

  1.

    Hanging by a Thread

    How the USS Squalus submarine became stranded on the bottom of the Atlantic in 1939.

  2. The Figure of the Earth

    The story of three 18th-century French explorers' scientific mission to the Andes.

  3. Ice King

    The story of Fridjtof Nansen, the father of polar exploration.

  4. The Making of Captain Cook

    Paul Rose looks at how Captain James Cook's discoveries have changed the world.

  5. Circumnavigation

    Paul Rose reveals the story behind the first ever circumnavigation of the world.