Season One Finale: A Kate Winslet Retrospective and What's to Come
Thank you for being part of Unsinkable during my first season. It's been an experiment, it's been joyful, I've met and spoken with so many people who have warmed my heart and challenged me to think mo...
18 Juni 20221h 30min
Book Club: An Interview with Historian Steven Biel (Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster)
Dr. Biel and I discuss everything from the legacy of the various Titanic films to his surreal experiences aboard a ship in the North Atlantic as part of the group that accompanied the 1998 expedition ...
3 Juni 20221h 11min
The Ghost(s) of Captain Smith
I've been circling this episode all season and am excited, finally, to bring you the story of Ted Smith (as he was known to those closest to him), the quiet but genial captain of the RMS Titanic. We l...
26 Maj 20222h 21min
Book Club--Erik Larson's Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Lusitania's legacy is also absolutely unsinkable. To buy Larson's book or any books I have featured, visit my Bookshop affiliate page: https://bookshop.org/shop/unsinkablepod For a general look at Wo...
13 Maj 20221h 11min
‘Still the sea seems strewn’: The Mackay-Bennett and Titanic’s Bodies
I began researching this episode uneasy about what I might find, nervous; and while it is an incredibly somber and sobering part of the Titanic story, I was also shocked at how exhilarated I felt unco...
30 Apr 20221h 22min
Finding Margaret Brown, with Museum Director Andrea Malcomb
Join me as I knock down with gusto some of the long-standing myths about Denver socialite/activist/philanthropist Margaret Brown (decidedly not Molly!), one of Titanic's most famed passengers. Her rea...
20 Apr 20221h 15min
April 14th, 1912/April 14th, 2022
This is a special episode in honor of the 110th anniversary of the night Titanic sank; I hesitate, always, to use the word "anniversary" here because it seems a bit crass, but we must commemorate ever...
14 Apr 202242min
Book Club: The Last Slave Ship
This is a companion to my episode on the Clotilda; join me as I discuss Ben Raines' stunning The Last Slave Ship, which recounts the ship's entire history as well as how he himself found it under just...
11 Apr 202251min
