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The harrowing true story behind The Terror on BBC2
BBC blurb explains: “Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, The Terror highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements, but with each other."The chilling 10-part series, which first aired in 2018, is based on real events and inspired by Dan Simmons’ novel of the same name.HMS Terror and HMS Erebus were ships designed to carry heavy mortar and cannon to hit targets from sea, and had been used in several expeditions before.But in 1845 they set sail on what would turn out to be their last voyage. Both ships were lost, and all 129 men on board perished in one of the worst disasters in the history of British polar exploration.