Sundogs and Haloes - Alone in Antarctica: The First Woman to Ski Solo Across the Southern Ice - page 170

Why'.) Eventually, I had decided to add variety by adding
spoken word recordings. My Dad gave me a complete set of
BBC Radio 4's Sceptred Isle series - over 300 hours of British
history from the ancient Britons to Queen Victoria. This might
not be everyone's ideal but I love history, so I loaded every
single episode onto my MP3 player.
Unfortunately, what I didn't realise was that my particular
player logged each individual programme as a separate track and
replayed the tracks not in the order they had been downloaded
but in alphabetical order according to the title of the episode.
What this meant was that I had 300 hours of British history
played at me in a totally random order over which I had no
control. As I skied through a blissfully serene Antarctica, the
digital voice in my ears darted from medieval England to the Age
of Enlightenment, from the Spanish Armada to the American
War of Independence. This might have been fine was it not for
the fact that the British monarchy hasn't been very imaginative
through the ages when it comes to naming their first born. There
are a lot of Edwards, a lot of Georges, and a lot of Henrys. I
very quickly lost track of precisely which King was riding into
battle and it appeared that the very same Henry was rampaging
through British History lopping the heads off of everything from
the Vikings to the Victorians.
I had the same problem with audio books. Each chapter
was logged as a separate track and the tracks were played in
alphabetical order according to title. Listening to an Agatha
Christie murder mystery, I heard the murderer revealed before
anyone had actually been murdered.
In frustration I returned to listening to music. As I skied
along contentedly listening to an eclectic selection of tracks I
turned my head to gaze with narrowed eyes on the sun away