One hundred years ago, on January 17th, 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott's five-man team reached the South Pole: only to find Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it more than a month earlier.

Scott's ill-fated expedition is the stuff of legend.  This week's Litopia After Dark has two legendary guests: Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones, formerly Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and Kari Herbert, daughter of polar explorer, Sir Wally Herbert.  Kari spent the first few years of her life living on a remote island in the Arctic with the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland.  Her first language was Inuktun, the local dialect of Greenlandic.  At the age of four Herbert accompanied her parents on a journey that took them through winter blizzards in a caravan to spend time with the Sami of Lapland.  She has continued to travel extensively ever since.

All this plus Litopia's very own Nic Alderton - it's going to be one cool show...

In case you haven't joined us before for the show, it's easy - all you need to is to come along to the chat room...

http://litopia.tv/rad

...before 8pm UK / 3pm EST where you'll find everything you need in order to enjoy the evening.  As you may know, we encourage members of the chat room to interact with our guests, so this is a rare opportunity indeed to talk with two major writers... and, of course, to be part of the show itself!

And there's more!  OPEN HOUSE, our weekly foray into the wilder shores of the English dictionary, is back!  If you like words and word games, and appreciate wit, then do come along and take part.  Again, it's the same link:

http://litopia.tv/rad

OPEN HOUSE kicks off before LITOPIA AFTER DARK, at 6:30pm UK time, 1:30pm Eastern.

Please tell everyone you can, via Facebook and Twitter etc, about both of these events, we do need to have a good turnout.

Posted on January 21 2012