Extremities

By Wendover ProductionsSociety & Culture Places & Travel

Extremities episodes

January 01, 2020 St Helena's Decisive Decade
On January 1st, 2020, St Helena enters what will potentially be the most important and consequential decade in its history.
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24 min
December 26, 2019 Cruise Ship Day
Suddenly, 800 tourists arrive on the tiny island of St Helena.
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28 min
December 18, 2019 An Island and its Airport
After 500 years alone, St Helena gets a little closer to the world.
Extremities is made possible by Curiosity Stream.
Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription at http://CuriosityStream.com/ext and get a free subscription to Nebula--the streaming video site that Wendover Productions helped found.
On Nebula, find The World's Most Useful Airport--the documentary we produced about St Helena's airport.
29 min
December 11, 2019 Dinner with the Economists
When you go to a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the South Atlantic and get invited to dinner by the island's top two economists, you say yes.

Extremities is made possible by Curiosity Stream.
Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription at http://CuriosityStream.com/ext and get a free subscription to Nebula--the streaming video site that Wendover Productions helped found.
On Nebula, find The World's Most Useful Airport--the documentary we produced about St Helena's airport.
29 min
December 04, 2019 Slavery, Mutiny, Goats, and a Frenchman
200 years of St Helena's history in a tidy 30 minutes.

This episode is made possible by Curiosity Stream.
Sign up for a yearly Curiosity Stream subscription at http://CuriosityStream.com/ext and get a free subscription to Nebula--the streaming video site that Wendover Productions helped found.
On Nebula, find The World's Most Useful Airport--the documentary we produced about St Helena's airport.
34 min
November 27, 2019 Arrival on St Helena
Extremities is back for season 3--this time, in the middle of the South Atlantic.

This episode is made possible by Curiosity Stream.
Sign up for a yearly Curiosity Stream subscription at http://CuriosityStream.com/ext and get a free subscription to Nebula--the streaming video site that Wendover Productions helped found.
On Nebula, find The World's Most Useful Airport--the documentary we produced about St Helena's airport.
31 min
October 30, 2019 Svalbard's Act Three
Svalbard is in its prime, but that could soon end.

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23 min
October 24, 2019 The Economy of the World's Northernmost town
The high arctic is not normally home to thriving economies but somehow, Longyearbyen's is.

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27 min
October 16, 2019 Pyramiden: The High-Arctic Soviet Ghost Town
20 years ago, what was previously the Soviet Union's model town in the high arctic closed for good. Today, though, it's slowly being revitalized.
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26 min
October 09, 2019 The Russian Town in Norwegian Svalbard
Barentsburg--a Russian town nestled within a Norwegian archipelago.

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27 min