What happens
Captain Robert Falcon Scott leads a five-man polar expedition to the South Pole in 1912 and learns that the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen has reached the pole first. Scott and his companions Wilson, Bowers, Evans and Oates begin the 800-mile journey back to their ship, battling bitter cold, failing supplies and worsening injuries. The episode of the CBS radio series Suspense first aired on April 21, 1952, and presents the story through the captain's diary entries, read in a dramatization starring Herbert Marshall as Scott. The men face mounting hardship and grim decisions as they struggle toward the supply depots.
Antarctica, the South Pole and the route back toward the ship, 1912
Characters: Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Evans, Oates, Kate
Listen for: Scott's diary entries, read by Herbert Marshall, record the expedition's progress and the men's growing despair as the return journey turns deadly.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.