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What to Carry, What to Burn
Blair Braverman
Frequency: 1 episode/9d. Total Eps: 5
Edge-of-your-seat survival stories, as told by adventurer and dogsledder Blair Braverman.
How did Ada Blackjack endure a brutal Arctic winter alone? Why did one shipwreck crew work together to survive, while another crew–on the same island–hunted each other for food? What can we learn from survivors about getting through the impossible–in the wilderness, and in our own lives?
New stories every other week!
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lundi 4 mai 2026 • Duration 00:55
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Ep 3: The Wreck of the Grafton
Episode 3
mardi 26 mai 2026 • Duration 01:08:16
Francois Raynal and his buddy, Captain Musgrave, are looking for a rumored island full of silver when they end up stranded in the Southern Ocean, surrounded by thousands of belching sea lions. After surviving a year in the wilderness, they accept that the world won’t save them—so they develop an ingenious (and terrifying) plan to save themselves.
Sources for this episode include the books Island of the Lost, by Joan Druett; The Wreck of the Grafton from the Private Journals of Thomas Musgrave, by Thomas Musgrave; and Wrecked on a Reef or 20 Months on the Auckland Islands, by Francois Raynal.
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Ep 1: The Friendly Arctic
Episode 1
mardi 12 mai 2026 • Duration 01:01:04
Ada Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers come to town, looking to hire someone for a secret yearlong expedition, Ada embarks on the trip—not knowing that she’ll be the only one of them to survive.
Featuring guest Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About.
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Ep 2: Ada Alone
Episode 2
mardi 12 mai 2026 • Duration 01:08:10
When five explorers are abandoned on a frozen island, with ever-dwindling food and supplies, they try to arrange their own rescue by dogsledding across the frozen Arctic Ocean. Twenty-three-year-old seamstress Ada Blackjack is left completely alone--with no idea when, or if, she'll escape.
Featuring guest Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About.
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Ep 4: Bob and the Invercauld
Episode 4
mardi 9 juin 2026 • Duration 54:41
It's bad enough that 19th-century sailor Bob Holding gets stranded on an island after a shipwreck—but to make it worse, his companions are entitled, incompetent, and straight up murderous. Plus, they're not as alone on the island as they think...
Sources for this episode include the books The Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Subantarctic by Madelene Ferguson Allen and Island of the Lost by Joan Druett.
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