The Titanic: Voices from the BBC Archives

The specially written narrative follows events chronologically in hours and minutes from the moment of impact, and is underpinned by extracts from BBC broadcasts - eyewitness accounts in the voices of those who built the great liner at the Harland and Woolf shipyard in Belfast, and those of the crew and passengers who survived the tragedy and later relived their experiences. The story has been much re-told, mythologised and fictionalised, but here the familiar story is told simply and dispassionately in a documentary format. A coda to the main story looks at the 1985 discovery of the wreck which ignited controversy. Were these undersea explorer marine archeologists or disturbers of… more » a mass grave ? The views of the divers and the remaining survivors complete the story. « less