Article: Cold feet? And the rest. (television program review)

Byline: PETER PATERSON

Arctic Adventurers: Airship Italia (C4); Floyd's India (C5) THE story of how Stalin bailed out a disastrous Italian polar expedition in the Twenties was well told in last night's Arctic Adventurers - but the Russian dictator didn't even rate a mention.

Yet it could be said that the survivors of the airship Italia, who spent 49 days marooned on an ice floe near Spitzbergen in 1928, owed their lives to two bears.

The first was a polar bear killed by the Swede, Finn Malmgren - a better shot than he was a meteorologist - to provide food.

The second was the Russian Bear, in the form of the Soviet icebreaker Krassin, ...

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