Meet [some of] The Guys
Jan. 9th, 2012 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinI have been considering for a while that I should post some short character synposes of the main players on the Terra Nova Expedition, because as things start to get exciting now it's probably better to have an idea of who's who, and to see the person behind the decision or the reaction ... and because, for all the epic epicness of the story, it's the people who got me so deeply into it.
This is, of course, the sort of thing one considers doing when one has far too many more important things to do ... Luckily, Radio 4 has chosen this week to express that it loves me back just a little bit, and is doing my work for me with five 15-minute bio pieces on less famous members of the crew. Here is the first:
To Strive and Seek: Herbert Ponting, Camera Artist
It's very nicely produced and contains actual facts that I have never encountered before, so my hopes are high for the rest of the week! If you're curious about the pictures mentioned, I list them below. The links take you to pages on the SPRI's gallery site; if you click on the image there you can see it a little bigger.
The Tenements (I'm pretty sure the nice lady in the show has Meares and Atkinson reversed; Meares is opposite Oates)
Meares and Oates at the Blubber Stove
The Geologist(s) at their table with books
The Cook in a wooly hat
Haircutting
Sewing
Sketching Painting
The Darkroom
Mt Erebus and the Barne Glacier (and Anton)
And finally, Herbert Ponting himself
This is, of course, the sort of thing one considers doing when one has far too many more important things to do ... Luckily, Radio 4 has chosen this week to express that it loves me back just a little bit, and is doing my work for me with five 15-minute bio pieces on less famous members of the crew. Here is the first:
To Strive and Seek: Herbert Ponting, Camera Artist
It's very nicely produced and contains actual facts that I have never encountered before, so my hopes are high for the rest of the week! If you're curious about the pictures mentioned, I list them below. The links take you to pages on the SPRI's gallery site; if you click on the image there you can see it a little bigger.
The Tenements (I'm pretty sure the nice lady in the show has Meares and Atkinson reversed; Meares is opposite Oates)
Meares and Oates at the Blubber Stove
The Geologist(s) at their table with books
The Cook in a wooly hat
Haircutting
Sewing
The Darkroom
Mt Erebus and the Barne Glacier (and Anton)
And finally, Herbert Ponting himself
