Titanic: Why Did They Ignore the Warnings?

Welcome to Sleepytime History™ — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest.

Tonight, the Titanic true story: the most magnificent ship of her day and the steady-handed sea captain who expected nothing from a routine Atlantic crossing but smooth sailing and a triumphant final chapter to his forty-year career. This is the story of RMS Titanic, the great liner the whole world believed unsinkable, and of Captain Edward Smith, the beloved millionaire's captain making the last voyage before his retirement. As the 1912 Titanic steamed westward beneath a flat, mirror-calm sea, ice warnings arrived by wireless through the day and were quietly waved aside, and there were lifeboats for barely half the souls aboard. Strangest of all, a novelist had imagined this very ending fourteen years earlier, in a tale of a doomed ship he named the Titan.

This Titanic sinking story follows the great ship toward the Titanic iceberg and the long, dark hours that came after, a Titanic ship disaster that would change the seas forever. Retold slowly and gently as a soothing Titanic bedtime story, this episode is made to help you get sleepy and drift into rest. If you love history for sleep and tranquil history, settle in and unwind with history that calms rather than alarms. Sleepytime History brings you audiobook journeys and long-form audio books drawn from Titanic history and beyond, tales of history legends and the greatest minds in history, retold as history to soothe the mind. Whether you are here for audiobooks, for history for serenity, or for history for serenity and harmony, let these calm true tales carry you softly toward sleep.

Let this gentle and haunting true story of the Titanic guide you into a restful night's sleep.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Titanic: Why Did They Ignore the Warnings?

00:42:10 The Real Count of Monte Cristo: Pierre Picaud

01:21:48 Stonehenge: The Ancient Mystery No One Has Solved

02:04:46 Hopelessly Lost in the New World: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

02:36:10 Genghis Khan: From Outcast to Master of the Known World

03:22:01 Ernest Shackleton's Endurance: Stranded at the End of the World

03:56:12 King Arthur, Camelot, the Man Behind the Myth

04:43:28 Lost Dutchman Gold Mine: Treasure, Legend, and a Dead Man's Secret

05:21:43 Man in the Iron Mask: Royal Cover-Up or Something Worse?

06:08:03 The Holy Grail: Lost Relic or Medieval Invention?

06:56:03 How Jeanne Baret, Disguised as a Man, Became the First Woman to Circle the Globe

07:41:46 Spartacus: Rise of the Gladiator Army

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Written and produced by Pamela Erwin
Narration by Oliver Hale
Music by Pia Maya
Visuals by Ben Blight

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