Titanic: The Final Hours (Part 2)

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Part 2/2. Iceberg, panic and lives changed forever. Loss, survival, and myth-making. Today is part two of the most famous maritime disaster in history.

Maddy Pelling takes Anthony Delaney through the tragic sinking of Titanic, from the fateful moment the iceberg is spotted through to what the wreck means today for people around the world.

Special thanks to our guest Marnie Wood a cultural historian and a producer on Titanic: In Colour.

Voice acting by Lucy Davidson and Stephen Ventura.

Written by Maddy Pelling. Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick and Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Audible, the home of true crime podcasts.
0:06.0	You know that Audible is home to audiobooks. One called Writing on the Walls brings to mind,
0:11.8	which our producer is listening to at the moment and says is spellbindingly well read.
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0:34.9	which is the untold story of how 1,304 psychiatric patients
0:40.5	came to be buried in unmark graves in the grounds of St. Lomans Hospital near Dublin.
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0:58.4	Listen on Audible now. 14th of April 1912.
1:16.6	In Titanic's Crows Nest, Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee look on in horror as the vast, dark shape rushes through the ocean to meet them.
1:26.1	Ice pig! Ice fig!
1:28.3	They shout.
1:29.3	In the bridge, panic is setting in.
1:32.3	First Officer William Murdoch acts fast,
1:35.3	ordering the ship to turn hard to starboard.
1:38.3	The engines, he instructs, must be cut and put into reverse.
1:47.5	Perhaps they can avoid the collision they all know is coming.
1:49.6	But it's too late.
1:53.4	With a terrible jolt, the ship connects with the iceberg,
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