Ali

Strap on your life vest, and let's find out if your heart really would go on, or if it would be doomed to stop forever in the icy darkness.

This is The Shorthand.

I read the other day that the reason we know the time it sank is because of all of the watches that froze at 20 past two.

Makes sense.

But hang about, what kind of ticket did you get?

Did you perhaps win it in a card game?

Think very carefully about your ticket type because it is going to affect everything.

An average third class ticket would cost you about seven quid, roughly 800 quid today.

Third class.

Fuck.

That's bonkers.

Second class, around 13 or 1,500.

I would assume so.

And also you are at sea for like weeks.

Oh, seven days.

How am I supposed to know how long it takes to cross the Atlantic?

No, Titanic go to America in four minutes.

If you were, best of all, in first class, you have no idea how many quotes I have in the fucking chamber for this episode.

I know, and I should have weaved before we started recording this.

If you were in first class, those tickets went, on average, for about £30, over £3,000 today.