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- An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
- Shackleton and Scott were men with a common goal: the South Pole. However, divisions between them grew as jealousy and intrigue intensified their rivalry. The consequence of their polar exploits is as shocking and fascinating now as it was during that closing phase of the age of exploration. This documentary draws upon a wealth of historical knowledge, and investigates the social setting and psychology of these men who dramatically, and fatally, pushed the limits of human endurance. Their amazing individual exploits marked them for greatness, but whose memory and mark on history will survive in the new millennium? Rivals for the Pole seeks to answer this question as well as setting the historical record straight on Shackleton and Scott.
- A team of Irish adventurers attempts to follow in the footsteps of Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton, who, in 1914, tried to cross the polar continent.
- Nigel Williams travels to California to explain the career of Raymond Chandler, the creator of the greatest hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe and his relationship with another famous detective fiction author, Dashiell Hammett and his creation, Sam Spade