Branagh blows in from the cold for TV drama; Belfast's Kenneth Branagh plays Sir Ernest Shackleton in a television drama about the great adventurer's 1914-15 Antartica expedition. IAN STARRETT reports on the four-hour tale that promises to be a highlight of the New Year holiday TV schedules.(Features)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: December 11, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: IAN STARRETT

SIR Ernest Shackleton was proud to be Anglo-Irish. One gets the impression that he would have been suitably impressed that the respected Ulster-born actor Kenneth Branagh, who played Shakespeare's Henry V, was chosen to play him in the four-hour Channel 4 epic that will be shown on January 1 and 2.

For Branagh has the same square jaw, a similar passion for leadership and he admires what Shackleton did.

"What appealed to me was ...

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