Duncan Barrett

Morgan and his fellow VIPs enjoy a slap-up lunch before embarking on a pleasure cruise to Liverpool, the doctors at the Royal Victoria Hospital are doing all they can to save James Dobbins' life. Ultimately, their efforts will prove futile. Even before touching water, Titanic has claimed her first victim. From the Noisa Podcast Network, this is Titanic Ship of Dreams, part one.

Morgan and his fellow VIPs enjoy a slap-up lunch before embarking on a pleasure cruise to Liverpool, the doctors at the Royal Victoria Hospital are doing all they can to save James Dobbins' life. Ultimately, their efforts will prove futile. Even before touching water, Titanic has claimed her first victim. From the Noisa Podcast Network, this is Titanic Ship of Dreams, part one.

The story of RMS Titanic is defined by how it ended, at 11.40pm on the 14th of April 1912, an impact that would reverberate for more than a century. A hundred years later, state-of-the-art submarines pay visits to Titanic's final resting place, almost 4,000 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

The story of RMS Titanic is defined by how it ended, at 11.40pm on the 14th of April 1912, an impact that would reverberate for more than a century. A hundred years later, state-of-the-art submarines pay visits to Titanic's final resting place, almost 4,000 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

This mass grave has become a magnet for ultra-wealthy tourists, those who can afford the quarter-of-a-million-dollar ticket price, desperate to see where the ship of dreams ended its first and only voyage. Peering through the murky depths, they can just about make out the rusty barnacle-clad remains of the once grand and glittering vessel. The end of RMS Titanic is a story every schoolchild knows.

This mass grave has become a magnet for ultra-wealthy tourists, those who can afford the quarter-of-a-million-dollar ticket price, desperate to see where the ship of dreams ended its first and only voyage. Peering through the murky depths, they can just about make out the rusty barnacle-clad remains of the once grand and glittering vessel. The end of RMS Titanic is a story every schoolchild knows.

But where exactly Titanic began, that's a little harder to pin down. In this series, we'll take you right through the Titanic story. From first designs, through the years of construction, to the fateful voyage that sealed the ship's fate, and beyond. We'll consider some of the questions that still haunt Titanic scholars more than a hundred years later.

But where exactly Titanic began, that's a little harder to pin down. In this series, we'll take you right through the Titanic story. From first designs, through the years of construction, to the fateful voyage that sealed the ship's fate, and beyond. We'll consider some of the questions that still haunt Titanic scholars more than a hundred years later.

Did White Star bus Bruce Ismay really order the captain to increase speed? Why were so many iceberg warnings ignored in the lead-up to the collision? And with almost 1,200 places available in the lifeboats, why were only 700 people saved? We'll look at Titanic's storied legacy in the years following the disaster.

Did White Star bus Bruce Ismay really order the captain to increase speed? Why were so many iceberg warnings ignored in the lead-up to the collision? And with almost 1,200 places available in the lifeboats, why were only 700 people saved? We'll look at Titanic's storied legacy in the years following the disaster.

From the 1958 blockbuster A Night to Remember, and James Cameron's $200 million epic Four Decades Later, to the Ocean Gate disaster of 2023. But we begin our story in 1907, five years before the fateful collision that ensured the ship's place in history. In fact, before the iceberg that sank the Titanic had even begun forming in Greenland. It's a balmy summer's evening in London.

From the 1958 blockbuster A Night to Remember, and James Cameron's $200 million epic Four Decades Later, to the Ocean Gate disaster of 2023. But we begin our story in 1907, five years before the fateful collision that ensured the ship's place in history. In fact, before the iceberg that sank the Titanic had even begun forming in Greenland. It's a balmy summer's evening in London.

We're at Downshire House, a white colonnaded building in Belgrave Square. In monopoly terms, this is very much purple territory. Smartly dressed waiters carry drinks on silver trays, passing them round to wealthy men and women in their best Edwardian formal wear. The scent of fine cuisine wafts up from the kitchens.

We're at Downshire House, a white colonnaded building in Belgrave Square. In monopoly terms, this is very much purple territory. Smartly dressed waiters carry drinks on silver trays, passing them round to wealthy men and women in their best Edwardian formal wear. The scent of fine cuisine wafts up from the kitchens.

Downshire House is the opulent London pad of Lord Pirrie, the 60-year-old white-bearded chairman of Harland and Wolfe. And this evening, he's hosting a dinner party. Among Pirrie's guests is White Star chairman, J. Bruce Ismay. At 44, Ismay has been running the company for the best part of a decade, ever since the death of his father, Thomas.

Downshire House is the opulent London pad of Lord Pirrie, the 60-year-old white-bearded chairman of Harland and Wolfe. And this evening, he's hosting a dinner party. Among Pirrie's guests is White Star chairman, J. Bruce Ismay. At 44, Ismay has been running the company for the best part of a decade, ever since the death of his father, Thomas.

Five years earlier, he oversaw the sale of White Star to J.P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine for an eye-watering $32 million. He now holds the top job in both companies. But despite his business acumen, Bruce Ismay is an awkward, unclobberable man. He's never quite emerged from his father's shadow. Domineering, bombastic, even brutish at times.

Five years earlier, he oversaw the sale of White Star to J.P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine for an eye-watering $32 million. He now holds the top job in both companies. But despite his business acumen, Bruce Ismay is an awkward, unclobberable man. He's never quite emerged from his father's shadow. Domineering, bombastic, even brutish at times.

Thomas Ismay was what you might picture as a titan of industry. Bruce very much the eldest boy who just happened to succeed him. Nonetheless, he has big plans for White Star, and they hinge on the company's long-standing relationship with Lord Pirrie's Harland & Wolfe. Thanks to a deal struck 40 years earlier, the two firms have an exclusive relationship.

Thomas Ismay was what you might picture as a titan of industry. Bruce very much the eldest boy who just happened to succeed him. Nonetheless, he has big plans for White Star, and they hinge on the company's long-standing relationship with Lord Pirrie's Harland & Wolfe. Thanks to a deal struck 40 years earlier, the two firms have an exclusive relationship.