1: The Job

Podcast: The Coldest Shift (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: 1: The JobPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat 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... --- 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 --- 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---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/ --- 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.--- ‘The Coldest Shift’ is a Hat Trick Podcast. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hat Trick Podcasts, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.