query: instance_of the last place on earth
supports: Trevor Griffiths (born 4 April 1935, Ancoats, Manchester), is an English dramatist. Martin Shaw (born 21 January 1945) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the television series "The Professionals", "The Chief", "Judge John Deed" and "Inspector George Gently". He has also acted on stage and in film, and has narrated numerous audiobooks and presented various television series, including the 2006 series "". Inspector George Gently (also known as George Gently for the pilot and first series) is a British television crime drama series produced by Company Pictures for BBC One, set in the 1960s and loosely based on some of the "Inspector Gently" novels written by Alan Hunter. The series features Martin Shaw as the eponymous Inspector, Lee Ingleby as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus, and Simon Hubbard and Lisa McGrillis in supporting roles as police constables for the fictitious North East Police Constabulary.  St Antony's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's is one of the most cosmopolitan of the University of Oxford's colleges and is considered to be a centre of excellence for study and research in the fields of international relations, economics, politics, and area studies. The college's areas of specialist study include Europe, Russia and the former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, and South and South East Asia. The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its sister papers "The Guardian" and "The Guardian Weekly", whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993, it claims to take a social liberal or social democratic line on most issues. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Roland Huntford (born R. Horwitch in 1927) is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lives in Cambridge, and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of "The Observer", also acting as their winter sports correspondent. He was the 198687 Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is (subject to the caveats explained below) defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Sami: "Norgga"), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land. Until 1814, the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands (since 1035), Greenland (1261), and Iceland (1262). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468. It also included the following provinces, now in Sweden: Jämtland, Härjedalen and Bohuslän. An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read. A reading of the complete text is noted as "unabridged", while readings of a reduced version, or abridgement of the text are labeled as "abridged". The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven - part serial , written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford . The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott ( played by Martin Shaw ) and his Norwegian rival in polar exploration , Roald Amundsen ( played by Sverre Anker Ousdal ) in their attempts to reach the South Pole . The series ran for seven episodes and starred a wide range of UK and Norwegian character actors as well as featuring some famous names , such as Max von Sydow , Richard Wilson , Sylvester McCoy , Brian Dennehy , and Pat Roach . It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant . Subsequently Huntford 's book was republished under the same name . The book put forth the point of view that Amundsen 's success in reaching the South Pole was abetted by much superior planning , whereas errors by Scott ( notably including the reliance on man - hauling instead of sled dogs ) ultimately resulted in the death of him and his companions . Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872  c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 191012 which was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911. In 1926, he was the first expedition leader for the air expedition to the North Pole. The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole. Sverre Anker Ousdal (born 18 July 1944) is a Norwegian actor born in Flekkefjord, Norway. Flekkefjord is the westernmost municipality of the geographical region of Sørlandet. Flekkefjord is approximately midway between the cities of Kristiansand and Stavanger, located along European route E39 and the Sørlandet Line. Ancoats is an inner city area of Manchester, North West England, next to the Northern Quarter and the northern part of Manchester city centre. Manchester is a major city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 514,414 . It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.55 million. Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council. Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Justice Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove as the barrister Jo Mills QC, frequently the object of Deed's desire. A pilot episode was broadcast on 9 January 2001, followed by the first full series on 26 November 2001. The sixth and last series concluded on 18 January 2007. The programme then went on an indefinite break after Shaw became involved in another television programme, and he and Seagrove expressed a wish for the format of the series to change before they filmed new episodes. By 2009, the series had officially been cancelled.
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answer: television series