The Worst Journey in the World is based on a memoir by an English explorer that was born in what year?
1886
Title: James Rosier
Passage: James Rosier (1573-1609) was an English explorer who is notable for his account of a 1605 expedition to America in which describes native peoples and fauna of northern New England.  He describes a journey along a "great river", but the identity of the river is not known for certain.
Title: Richard Hore
Passage: Richard Hore () was an English explorer who conducted an early voyage to the coast of what is now Newfoundland, where his passengers allegedly engaged in cannibalism in order to survive.  His travels are attested in the writings of Richard Hakluyt, who documented the ill-fated expedition.  Apart from his famous journey and its immediate aftermath, little is known about the life of Richard Hore.
Title: Kate McAll
Passage: Kate McAll is Executive Producer, Radio Drama at BBC Wales.  There she is a radio director and producer for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.  Her credits include "How I Live Now" (Radio 3) and "The Worst Journey in the World" (Radio 4), along with seven Torchwood radio episodes.
Title: Mark Meadows (actor)
Passage: On radio, Meadows has appeared in "Lost Souls" and "The Worst Journey in the World", both first broadcast in 2008 and directed by Kate McAll for BBC Radio 4.
Title: The Worst Journey in the World (docudrama)
Passage: The Worst Journey in the World is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama based on the memoir of the same name by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard.  The narrator Barry Letts, best known for his tenure as the producer of "Doctor Who", played Cherry-Garrard in the 1948 film "Scott of the Antarctic".
Title: Douglas Botting
Passage: Douglas Scott Botting (born 22 February 1934) is an English explorer, author, biographer and TV presenter and producer.  He wrote biographies of naturalists Gavin Maxwell and Gerald Durrell (the former also being a personal friend).  He was the inspiration behind and writer of the 1972 BBC comedy show "The Black Safari", a role-reversal comedy show with Africans touring England.  He has also featured in numerous other BBC programming, including "Under London Expedition" exploring the London sewerage system, as part of the BBC2 nature series "The World About Us".  He has written numerous World War II and early aviation books for Time Life Books.  Botting took part in the first balloon flight over Africa, with Anthony Smith.
Title: The First Men in the Moon (2010 film)
Passage: The First Men in the Moon, also promoted as H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, is a 2010 made for TV drama written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Damon Thomas, that stars Gatiss as Cavor and Rory Kinnear as Bedford, with Alex Riddell, Peter Forbes, Katherine Jakeways, Lee Ingleby and Julia Deakin.  "The First Men on the Moon" was first broadcast on 19 October 2010 on BBC Four.  It is an adaptation of H. G. Wells' science fiction novel of the same name.  This is the third collaboration between Thomas and Gatiss (after "The Worst Journey In The World" and "Crooked House"), and the first film to be produced by their production company Can Do Productions.
Title: John Smith (explorer)
Passage: Captain John Smith (bapt.  6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631), Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author.  He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely .  He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.  He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.  He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England.
Title: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Passage: Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (2 January 1886 – 18 May 1959) was an English explorer of Antarctica.  He was a member of the Terra Nova Expedition and is acclaimed for his historical account of this expedition, "The Worst Journey in the World".
Title: The Worst Journey in the World
Passage: The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott.  It was written and published in 1922 by a member of the expedition, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning (if any) of human suffering under extreme conditions.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst Journey in the World (docudrama)