Book Club: The Race to Save the Titanic, with Author William Hazelgrove
In this, my first book-centered episode, I chat with best-selling author William Hazelgrove about his book One Hundred and Sixty Minutes: The Race to Save the RMS Titanic, which unpacks and challenges...
10 Tammi 20221h 10min
The Coldest Frontier: Robert Ballard and the Discovery of the Wreck of Titanic
This episode has been in the works for many months, for there is a LOT of material out there about scientist and oceanographer Robert Ballard, one of the discoverers of the wreck of Titanic in 1985 an...
21 Joulu 20211h 51min
After the Flood: Don't Look Up and a Leonardo DiCaprio Retrospective
I've been training for this for 25 years, you guys! Today I shake up the Unsinkable feed with an experimental, rather spontaneous, rather improvised episode about Leonardo DiCaprio. He's our Jack Daws...
16 Joulu 20211h 57min
Titanic on Film: A Night to Remember (1958)
I re-visited the 1958 classic A Night to Remember, the first and main British cinematic interpretation of the sinking; it was based, of course, on the book of the same name by Walter Lord and I speak ...
7 Joulu 20211h 8min
The One, Not the Two: Helen Churchill Candee
Join me for an in-depth portrait of Titanic survivor Helen Churchill Candee, whose 90 years of life coincided an incredible number of times with rather huge historical moments and social developments ...
29 Marras 20211h 25min
Titanic on Film: Raise the Titanic (1980)
After touching on some analysis of Clive Cussler's 1976 bestseller Raise the Titanic in my last regular episode, I decided to watch its 1980 film adaptation (though I feared it, to be honest). I'm so...
22 Marras 202145min
Titanic in Fiction, with Chelsea Pinkard
People have been writing about Titanic since almost the moment she sank, and this episode is my attempt to analyze how those authors have interpreted and fictionalized the sinking. Historical fiction...
15 Marras 20211h 41min
Titanic on Film: Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
Here I put my cards on the table: Unsurprisingly, I'm a huge James Cameron fan and absolutely enamored of his deep sea exploration. In this episode I summarize, historicize, and review his 2003 docume...
7 Marras 202153min
