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3: Who Killed the Albatross?When Coleridge's ancient mariner shoots the albatross, history has assumed that the finger on the trigger was the opium-inspired genius of the poet. But not so, as Mike Thomson discovers when he reopens the private journals of Captain Cook and his South
Sea explorers whose minds were warped by scurvy and Sinister imaginings. Producer Helen Weinstein

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