Jessa Crispin

The best podcasts about dying, or almost dying

Stay Away from Matthew MaGill is one of those ‘they don’t make men like that any more’ stories, while Against the Odds focuses on ill-fated tales of endurance

Shackleton's ship, 'Endurance,' stuck in the ice in the Weddell Sea during the Antarctic expedition, 1915. Image: Granger Historical Picture Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
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