Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast
from BBC Radio 4. Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury,
that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
For rights reasons, the music's shorter than on the original broadcast,
but you can find a version with longer music tracks on BBC Sounds.
Listeners will also get access to episodes 28 days earlier than everyone else.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My cast away this week is the glaciologist Professor Liz Morris.
She's a scientist whose work in some of Earth's most inhospitable environments
has not only paved the way for future generations of women in her field,
but broadened humanity's understanding of climate change and polar science.
Her many accolades include the prestigious Polar Medal, an OBE and her own glacier.
Well, one named in her honour.
It's a far cry from the early days of her career
when women were banned from taking part in field research for the British Antarctic Survey.
She persisted and in 1987 became the first British woman to camp out and carry out experiments
away from a research station in the wilds of Antarctica.
She says, what is very, very nice is to be lying in a pyramid
tent with the swish of the ice crystals blowing against the canvas
of the tent and to know that you're snug and warm and whatever else is going on outside, you've got it sorted.