History to Sleep Through

Shackleton's Endurance, Part 3: The Return

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:48:20 GMT

Twenty-two men waited on Elephant Island for four and a half months, living under two upturned boats, while Shackleton tried four times to reach them. Life on the island, the ships he borrowed and begged for, and how the expedition ended, including the second party on the far side of Antarctica.

Narrated by an AI voice.

Shackleton's Endurance, Part 2: The Whistle

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:48:14 GMT

After the ship went down, 28 men camped on the drifting sea ice for five months, then took to three lifeboats and reached Elephant Island. From there, six of them sailed a 22-foot boat 800 miles to South Georgia, and three of those six walked across the island's mountains, which no one had ever crossed, to the whaling station at Stromness.

Narrated by an AI voice.

Shackleton's Endurance, Part 1: The Drift

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:40:53 GMT

In January 1915 the Endurance was frozen into the ice of the Weddell Sea, and she never sailed again. How the expedition was paid for, how the ship was built and the crew chosen, the long winter aboard, and the slow drift that left 28 men stranded on the ice.

Narrated by an AI voice.