Episode 2: Patience

Dr. Juliana Adelman speaks to Seamus Taaffe about how the men of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition practised patience while they sought to be rescue.

Readings from Shackleton’s book South are performed by John Carty of the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company.  Music comes from the piece ‘Shackleton’s Endurance’, commissioned by the Athy Shackleton Museum and composed by Brian Hughes with narration (not heard) by John McKenna.  The series is introduced by Jonathan Shackleton and produced by Juliana Adelman.


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