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Britain's Whale Hunters: The Untold Story

Episode 1: The Rise

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Archive footage and testimony from the last of the whale hunters helps Adam Nicolson reveal what it was like to have hunted whales in Antarctica in the early 20th century. Show more

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