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 Des 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 Des 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 202153min
The Six: Titanic's Chinese Survivors, with Steven Schwankert
I'm thrilled to bring you an interview with Steven Schwankert, co-creator of the new documentary The Six, which tells the story of the six Chinese survivors of Titanic. The film is directed by Arthur ...
30 Okt 20211h 5min
The Ship, in Dreams: Titanic and the Supernatural
An in-depth examination of paranormal phenomenon related to the ship: the omens and premonitions of passengers, accounts from fortune-tellers, and the life and writings of spiritualist and Titanic vic...
23 Okt 20211h 32min
