The series begins with a song celebrating two great explorers - Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to ...

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential family. His parents died when he was 10 and he was sent to the queen's court. When he was 12, he became a page for the queen.

S. Eliot as an epigraph for this column to underscore how magnificent, wondrous and irreplaceable the feat of Ferdinand Magellan and his men when they circumnavigated the globe and discovered the ...