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The Coldest Shift

The Coldest Shift

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Veröffentlicht: 2025-11-05
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The Job

The Job

What does is take to be a Polar medic?  When Dr. Rachel Varnam asked her boss in A & E where her colleague had vanished to, she didn’t expect to be told ‘The Antarctic’. From that moment she knew she had to do the same.   Working for BASMU as
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What does is take to be a Polar medic? 
When Dr. Rachel Varnam asked her boss in A & E where her colleague had vanished to, she didn’t expect to be told ‘The Antarctic’. From that moment she knew she had to do the same.  
Working for BASMU as ship’s doctor onboard the British Antarctic Survey’s research ship ‘The James Clarke Ross’ her dream comes true.  
Yet, its 2020 and with the world in the grips of the Covid 19 Pandemic the voyage takes on a new historic dimension to resupply and reenable the essential research of the BAS on the last continent free of the virus... 
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Presented by Dr. Rachel Varnam and Dr. Jenna Plank.
The series is produced by Rachel Varnam and John Wakefield. 
The Executive Producers are Claire Broughton and Laura Varnam. 
The Studio Engineer was Alex O’Donovan. 
Follow Rachel’s adventure on Instagram @coldestshiftpod 
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Thanks to Arone Dyer for organizing the use of her Dronechoir in this podcast, and to PEOPLE Festival and Michelberger Music for enabling its documentation. Thanks as well to Brassland Projects / Duchamp Inc for encouraging the use of the piece. For more information visit aronedyer.com, brassland.org, and michelbergermusic.com. 
All additional music blue dot sessions - www.sessions.blue
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With thanks to the British Antarctic Survey and the British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit. 
Learn more about their crucial work at www.bas.ac.uk 
Or learn more about the history of the British Antarctic Survey - https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/about-bas/history/history-of-bas/ 
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Excerpts from Boris Johnson’s Statement 
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-address-to-the-nation-on-coronavirus-23-march-2020 
And Rishi Sunak’s Statement on Covid Figures 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtlFAuqL5g 
Both used under the Open Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ 
Extract from Justin Rowlatt’s BBC piece on the paused work of the British Antarctic Survey used with permission – Follow his reporting at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cn5e8npr2l3t 
Image credit - Rachel Varnam.
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‘The Coldest Shift’ is a Hat Trick Podcast.
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Erscheinungs­datum: 5.11.2025, 06:00:00

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In 2020 at the height of the pandemic, only one continent remained Covid free - Antarctica. And it was the job of the British Antarctic Survey, and Dr. Rachel Varnam, to keep it that way.  
'The Coldest Shift' follows Dr. Rachel Varnam, the ships Doctor on board the Royal Research Ship James Clarke Ross on her final voyage to the Antarctic before being replaced by the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
This series casts a unique ear on the oft-unseen realities of Antarctic medicine and life at sea on an polar vessel: from the engineers who deal with rodents to prevent environmental contamination to the electricians maintaining the systems that predict space weather to keep the satellites above us flying. And of course, the scientists aboard the ship that has found multiple new species and undersea volcanoes as well as supporting research essential to humanity’s survival. 
New Episodes fortnightly. Start with Episode 1.

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