Here the book ventures deep into academia with Origen's disquisition on this event, how Eustathius of Antioch demolished his arguments, and how Titus Oates and Lodowick Muggleton got in on the act a long way from the burlesque theatre.

ECONOMIST: Ventriloquism

Two other members of the polar party, Welshman Edgar Evans from Rhossili on Gower, and Captain Lawrence "Titus" Oates - he of the renowned phrase "I am going outside and I may be some time" - had earlier lost their lives.

BBC: Cardiff's role in Captain Scott's trip to South Pole