Shackleton is a British period television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC 2 in 1983.Baskin p.189 It portrays the Antarctic expeditions of the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Scriptwriter Christopher Ralling drew on Shackleton's own journals, which were re-published by the BBC as a tie-in to the series.
Cast David Schofield as Sir Ernest Shackleton David Rodigan as Frank Wild Michael Hayward as 'Putty' Marston Robert Lang as Major Darwin Robert James as Sir John Scott-Keltie Victoria Fairbrother as Emily Shackleton Neil Stacy as Captain R. F. Scott Geoffrey Chater as Sir Clements Markham Anthony Bate as Lord Curzon Benjamin Whitrow as Roald Amundsen Michael Sheard as Dr. Koettlitz Kevin Whately as Jameson Adams Leslie Schofield as Ernie Joyce John Wheatley as Percy Blackborrow Tara Hiatt as Small Child
References
Bibliography Ellen Baskin. Serials on British Television, 1950-1994. Scolar Press, 1996. Neville Peat. Shackleton's Whisky: A Spirit of Discovery: Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the Rare Malt Whisky He Left Behind. Penguin Random House, 2012.
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