RMS TITANIC LECTURES & THEATRE 2012 PRESENTATIONS RELEASED

RMS Titanic: 2012 Special Lecture
& Theatre Presentations Series

After an intensive period of new research, Julian Bray and Morag Irving have updated their acclaimed series of lectures and educational presentational packages on five very different aspects of RMS Titanic. All the lectures from the previous series rolled out as a curtain raiser last year and presented to large diverse audiences on major cruise ships and in European theatres. Several thousand feedback responses have been excellent and the quality of questions at each live presentation has been challenging but all were fully answered and in great technical detail!

The lectures and / or presentations are presented as podium lectures with advanced Powerpoint and audio reinforcement by experienced international broadcaster and Equity member Julian Bray, Morag Irving, research historian, optionally joins for the live and totally unscripted question and answer sessions. Depending on the location,  The stage or theatrical presentation lends itself to a variety of presentational formats. Simply there is currently no other presentational series of talks on RMS Titanic (and we include recent TV and Film series) with this depth of knowledge and information on the whole event.

During the Q&A's a further fascinating photographic carousel of little seen RMS Titanic images are projected.  Research Historian Morag Irving has been drawn to the whole RMS Titanic story since the early 1970's and has built up one of Europes' leading libraries and data on the whole tragedy and how it still impacts on travel and shipping today. Due to the copiously recorded and highly detailed UK and USA Official Inquiries and the vast Father Browne photographic library (the good Father took all his glass negative pictures and then safely left the ship at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland (the ship was to perish two days later) this brief moment in time has uniquely been minutely and dramatically recorded. The presenters also have access to the RMS Titanic tender 'Normandy' which is being refurbished in Belfast having been recovered from France on a pontoon and returned to its birthplace in Northern Ireland.

How to Survive Titanic

This book has been doing the rounds for a few months. No doubt as we head further towards 2012 and the 100th anniversary of Titanic we will see a plethora more. So, is it worth buying? Well, on this occasion I'd say borrow it from the library.
I was very curious approaching this book as it was much heralded as being a new look at the circumstances and the life of Ismay after the disaster.
Those interestead in Titanic will find little that is new here. Most of the information is already 'out there' and relatively easy to find. Towards the end of the book it had started to annoy me.
It is so easy to look at the events of 1912 with 2011 eyes. To paraphrase 'The past is another place' (which I wish someone had told the author).
1912 manners and lifestyle bear no relation to modern life today, and that is the basis of this book. I won't spoil the subtext, but suffice to say it hints at a love story. I find this so hard to believe and that's why I had so much trouble with this book, too much Downton Abbey and not enough historical fact ~ sorry.




Contributor: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581