- 23 minutes 27 secondsSt 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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1 January 2020, 5:47 pm - 27 minutes 37 secondsCruise Ship Day
Suddenly, 800 tourists arrive on the tiny island of St Helena.
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26 December 2019, 3:45 pm - 28 minutes 58 secondsAn Island and its AirportAfter 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.18 December 2019, 3:27 pm
- 28 minutes 26 secondsDinner 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.
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11 December 2019, 3:00 pm - 33 minutes 9 secondsSlavery, Mutiny, Goats, and a Frenchman
200 years of St Helena's history in a tidy 30 minutes.
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4 December 2019, 3:31 pm - 30 minutes 2 secondsArrival on St Helena
Extremities is back for season 3--this time, in the middle of the South Atlantic.
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27 November 2019, 6:21 pm - 22 minutes 1 secondSvalbard's Act Three
Svalbard is in its prime, but that could soon end.
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30 October 2019, 6:12 pm - 26 minutes 2 secondsThe 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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- 26 minutes 49 secondsThe Russian Town in Norwegian Svalbard
Barentsburg--a Russian town nestled within a Norwegian archipelago.
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9 October 2019, 3:13 pm - 34 minutes 45 secondsThe Most Strangely Normal Town
Longyearbyen--the story of a town that shouldn't be this normal.
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