Alone and on Foot in Antarctica

Alone and on Foot in Antarctica

Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and collector of rare books, maps, and fossils. But his true obsession was exploration. Worsley revered the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and he had led a 2009 expedition to the South Pole. But Worsley planned an even greater challenge. At fifty-five, he set out to trek alone to ski from one side of the Antarctic continent to the other, hauling more than three hundred pounds of gear and posting an audio diary by satellite phone. The New Yorker staff writer David Grann wrote about Worsley’s quest, and spoke with his widow, Joanna Worsley, about the painful choice she made to support her husband in a mortally dangerous endeavor.

This segment originally aired March 2, 2018.

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Pope Francis the Disruptor

Pope Francis the Disruptor

As a conservative columnist at the New York Times, Ross Douthat fills the post once held by no less a figure than William Kristol.  A devout Catholic, Douthat opposes the progressive direction in whic...

13 Huhti 201831min

Frank Oz on Miss Piggy’s Secret Backstory and Jim Henson’s Legacy

Frank Oz on Miss Piggy’s Secret Backstory and Jim Henson’s Legacy

Frank Oz was a teenager when he started working with Jim Henson, the puppeteer and filmmaker behind the Muppets. Oz went on to create characters like Bert,  Cookie Monster, Miss Piggy, and Yoda from “...

10 Huhti 201824min

Emma González at Home, and a Crown Prince Abroad

Emma González at Home, and a Crown Prince Abroad

Emma González is a survivor of the Parkland attack, and a leader of the #NeverAgain movement. She talks with David Remnick about the ways her life has changed since the shooting, and why activism come...

6 Huhti 201832min

How Not to Write a Caption

How Not to Write a Caption

Every week, a New Yorker cartoon is posted online and printed in the magazine without a caption, and thousands of people write in with their suggestions.  Readers vote on a winner, and the top pick is...

3 Huhti 201821min

John Thompson vs. American Justice

John Thompson vs. American Justice

When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that it was because he had sold drugs to an undercover cop.  When he realized they were investigating a murder, he could only laugh: “Sh...

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The American Bombs Falling on Yemen

The American Bombs Falling on Yemen

Abdulqader Hilal Al-Dabab was the mayor of Sana’a, a politician with a long record of mediating disputes in a notoriously fractious and dangerous country. Earlier in his career, he accepted a position...

27 Maalis 201835min

Scott Pruitt, the “Originalist” at the E.P.A.

Scott Pruitt, the “Originalist” at the E.P.A.

As the Attorney General of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt sued the Environmental Protection Agency fourteen times, claiming that the Obama Administration had overreached with policies intended to curtail clim...

23 Maalis 201821min

A Homemade Museum in a Refugee Camp

A Homemade Museum in a Refugee Camp

Tens of thousands of refugees from the civil war in Yemen have fled across the narrow Mandeb Strait to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa. Nicolas Niarchos reported for The New Yorker from Djibouti, wher...

20 Maalis 201822min

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