‘The Terror’ TV drama tells the tale of Lincolnshire explorer Sir John Franklin’s doomed voyage
Famous Lincolnshire explorer gets own BBC show
Sir John Franklin has a statue up in Spilsby. | Photo: Lyn Gould for The Lincolnite
‘The Terror’ is a new BBC drama based on the doomed Arctic expedition headed by Spilsby born Sir John Franklin in search of the fabled North West passage – a route around the top of Canada connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific.
It is an epic tale of hardship and is the worst disaster in British polar exploration. The fate of the 129 men has been a matter of speculation for 170 years.