One of the lesser known facts about Captain Scott's doomed 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole was that the Gramophone Company (later renamed EMI) gave them two His Master's Voice record players and hundreds of 78 RPM 10" records to take with them. This music was played in the Antarctic by members of the party and is referred to in journals and diaries. In June EMI are releasing a double CD set that includes music Scott's team are know to have listened to, as well as other contemporary catalogue material. It consists of a very Edwardian mix of music hall, opera, parlour song, orchestral classics and contemporary comic performance. Scott's expedition reached it's final frozen end in March 1912, returning across the Ross Ice Shelf from the South Pole after discovering that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had reached it before them.