In this episode, Graeme Hill is joined by maritime storyteller John McCrystal for a gripping account of the Franklin Expedition, the doomed 1845 voyage of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of the Northwest Passage. Together they explore Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic mission, the mystery of why two heavily fortified ships were abandoned, and the disturbing clues left behind: graves, cairns, Inuit oral histories, forensic evidence, possible lead poisoning, starvation, scurvy and cannibalism. It is a haunting shipwreck tale without survivors, where modern science and historical testimony shed light on one of exploration history’s most enduring mysteries while leaving its central questions unresolved.