Episodes
Voyages of Discovery: The Figure of the Earth (BBC 4 Saturday 1 July 2023)
Voyages of Discovery: The Figure of the Earth airs Saturday 1 July 2023 on BBC 4.
What can we expect from this episode
Paul Rose, an explorer, recounts the story of three Frenchmen who couldn’t stand each other but nonetheless embarked on an eight-year scientific mission in one of the world’s most inhospitable regions. They went to the disease-ridden rainforests and oxygen-starved peaks of the Ecuadorian Andes to carry out their plan to settle an international dispute by measuring the shape of the planet.
Rose follows in the footsteps of 18th-century explorers who were naive about the horrors they would encounter abroad. The men made discoveries that fundamentally altered all of our lives, despite disease, death, and some highly disastrous sexual liaisons.
When can we see the episode
Voyages of Discovery: The Figure of the Earth airs Saturday 1 July 2023 at 8.00pm on BBC 4
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