RMS Titanic: 2011 Special Lecture Series
After an intensive period of new research, we have created five lectures and presentational packages on RMS Titanic. All the lectures have been rolled out and presented to large diverse audiences on major cruise ships and European theatres. Feedback has been excellent and the quality of questions at each presentation has been challenging but we fully answered all of them in great technical detail!
The lectures are presented by Julian Bray, Morag Irving, research historian, joins for the live and totally unscripted question and answer sessions. Morag has been fascinated by the whole RMS Titanic story since the early 1970's and has built up one of the UK's leading libraries and data on the whole tragedy. Which due to the copiously recorded UK and USA Official Inquiries and the vast Father Browne photographic library (the good Father took all his glass negative pictures and then left the ship at Queenstown Cobh), Ireland (the ship was to perish two days later) this brief moment in time has been minutely recorded).
Clearly 2011, is a special year, 100 years following the sinking, so we expect strong demand for confirmed dates. The ITV 'Titanic' television fictional mini series, although the pre-publicity package for the series is riddled with mistakes, will in any case raise the profile of the RMS Titanic story and generate many Radio and TV strands worldwide
Each RMS Titanic lecture presentation is of roughly 40 minutes duration and can either be stand-alone or delivered as a series, we then offer an open house Q&A session. Nothing is off limits.
All lectures are fully supported with layered, animated digital slides. For theatre presentations, we would present 2 of the lectures (2 x45 mins.) with an audience interactive Q&A at the end of the second half. Although the usual presentation is the first half a complete RMS Titanic presetnation and the second half a Q&A with the anwwrs fully extended to fill the 45 minutes second half.
#1 RMS Titanic Films, Myth and Mystery How the Titanic Story is portrayed in films, on radio and in the press. We look at the storytellers and scriptwriters down the decades; their contribution to the Titanic story and myths they created.
#2 A Superliner is born: The RMS Titanic Story. Generations of irish shipbuilding families put their craft skills into building RMS Titanic not realising that othershad deliberately cut corners, specified sub-standard materials and unproven systems cynically creating a disaster in waiting.
#3 RMS Titanic and her Ugly Sisters. Why build one when you can build three? From the Titanic blueprint, two further near identical ships were built, all had the same design flaws and a cut down, money saving cheaper materials specification. Why did the White Star Line board feel the risks were worth taking or did some directors rebel?
#4 RMS Titanic Passengers: First Class or Steerage? Kidnappers & Murderers to Dukes & Bankers. We look at several untold fascinating ‘Upstairs & Downstairs’ stories culled from the RMS Titanic passenger manifest, featuring images ffrom the Queenstown (Cobh) Ireland Titanic Museum.
#5 RMS Titanic: The unsinkable Molly Brown, so why did she sink? We delve into recently released material to discover the shocking truth behind the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the lack of safety systems, unworkable lifeboat boarding and drills, loading of volatile firedamp bunker coal, faulty rivets and the use of condemned pig iron.
#1 RMS Titanic Films, Myth and Mystery How the Titanic Story is portrayed in films, on radio and in the press. We look at the storytellers and scriptwriters down the decades; their contribution to the Titanic story and myths they created.
#2 A Superliner is born: The RMS Titanic Story. Generations of irish shipbuilding families put their craft skills into building RMS Titanic not realising that othershad deliberately cut corners, specified sub-standard materials and unproven systems cynically creating a disaster in waiting.
#3 RMS Titanic and her Ugly Sisters. Why build one when you can build three? From the Titanic blueprint, two further near identical ships were built, all had the same design flaws and a cut down, money saving cheaper materials specification. Why did the White Star Line board feel the risks were worth taking or did some directors rebel?
#4 RMS Titanic Passengers: First Class or Steerage? Kidnappers & Murderers to Dukes & Bankers. We look at several untold fascinating ‘Upstairs & Downstairs’ stories culled from the RMS Titanic passenger manifest, featuring images ffrom the Queenstown (Cobh) Ireland Titanic Museum.
#5 RMS Titanic: The unsinkable Molly Brown, so why did she sink? We delve into recently released material to discover the shocking truth behind the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the lack of safety systems, unworkable lifeboat boarding and drills, loading of volatile firedamp bunker coal, faulty rivets and the use of condemned pig iron.
We also have a unique RMS Titanic presentation on Queenstown (Cobh) in Ireland, orginally prepared and presented during the maiden voyage of the Independence of the Seas from Southampton to Cobh.
Elements of the lectures can also be used (without PowerPoint) as an After Dinner Speech or Club presentation.
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