TITANIC TALKS & LECTURES, ILLUSTRATED ENRICHMENT LECTURES & THEATRE SPACE PRESENTATIONS

TITANIC TALKS & LECTURES Tel: 01733 345581 julianbray@aol.com isdn:+44 (0)1733 345020 Everything you have ever wanted to know about the whole RMS Titanic story, culled from a lifetime of research and reaction from our at sea lectures and theatrical presentations. A series of 45 minute lectures lavishly illustrated and packed with fascinating facts. Julian Bray NUJ Equity and Morag Irving Dip Lit & BA (Open)

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The most entertaining and compelling series of five lectures covering all aspects of the RMS Titanic Story. Morag Irvings, encyclopaedic technical knowledge of the intricate detail, made the wide ranging Q&A sessions, an event to remember.
Julian Brays delivery of the story was deeply moving and powerfully illustrated with pictures and documents, many not seen before. The personal stories of the passengers on board were all brilliantly researched.
We had to move them from the 400 seat Conference Centre into our 1,200 seat theatre, and repeat some of the lectures, such was the sustained demand for places, on the maiden voyage of the Independence of the Seas which retraced the RMS Titanic journey to Queenstown (COBH) Ireland. Julian and Morag were as always a professional delight to work with.
On subsequent voyages with us, when they have been asked to repeat the series, it was noted that all of the subjects had been updated, and the theatrical on-screen presentations infused with new material reflecting the actual 100th Anniversary of the sinking.

Cruise Director, Royal Caribbean

Julian Bray NUJ Equity

Julianbray@aol.com 01733 345581

UK Tel: 01733 345581 Intl. Tel: +44 1733 345581 Moragirving@virginmedia.com

Sunday, 15 January 2012

TITANIC??? Costa Concordia 21st Century Cruise Ship wreck not a new Titanic says Commentator

The loss of the Costa Concordia 21st Century cruise ship on Friday 13th really isn't another Titanic, says Julian Bray, Cruise Industry Broadcaster & Commentator and joint lecturer with Research Marine Historian Morag Irving on all aspects of the RMS Titanic sinking.

Mr Bray reminds us all that we are looking at the Titanic with eyes and experiences gained 100 years on. In its day, the coal fired RMS Titanic was state of the art but all other aspects are different. The Costa Concordia has for example a 'black box' recorder usually located at the bow and welded to the Upper deck. The death toll for RMS Titanic was substantial most caused by drowning in the freezing water and just a few wooden life boats were available.

The Master and the First Officer of the Costa Concordia have both been arrested and allegations of causing a shipwreck, causing multiple homicides and abandoning his ship (allegedly at 9:30pm on Friday) thus leaving whilst his passengers were still on board, will be put to them.

Contributors: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581 2012 Anniversary RMS Titanic Illustrated Lecture Series now available, please enquire.

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Titanics reborn tender Nomadic - Time to renew

Nomadic on Christmas day!

If you are a member of the Nomadic Preservation Society www.nomadicpreservaionsocoety.co.uk its that time of the year - time to renew your subscription. Subscriptions are due on 1st January every year. As its such an exciting time for Nomadic I'm sure you wouldn't want to miss out! How lovely to see her in the photo (above) with a funnel. So much wonderful work is going on in Belfast. You can see just from the small photograph those beautiful lines, and how she is coming back to life. If you are not a member I really urge you to join, as you are missing out. If you are at all interested in Titanic (and as you are reading this, its a good chance you are) Nomadic is the last surviving White Star Line Ship. Nomadic was Titanic's first class tender and was built with all the other ships at Harland & Wolff, where she is today.

Contributors: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581 2012 Anniversary RMS Titanic Illustrated Lecture Series now available, please enquire.

TITANIC AWARD WINNING ILLUSTRATED POWERPOINT LECTURES

We have a series of five important CORE lectures on RMS Titanic with full PowerPoint support and a useful Q&A unscripted session optionally follows each lecture.

All enquiries and availability direct to: Tel: 01733 345581 or leading agents. E-mail: julianbray@aol.com

It should be noted that each of the five main lecture strands above can also be broken down into further subject strands giving a total of 20 composite lectures.

The objective is to provide a total but flexible lecture package that can not only be adapted for a variety of different audiences, but essentially retains the core highly researched elements that have given the series excellent audience satisfaction ratings. The lectures were originally developed for the maiden voyage of Independence of the Seas which retraced the orginal RMS Titanic voyage from Southampton to Cobh [Queenstown] in Ireland.

Since that time, the lecture package has been further evolved with additional high quality presentational images and a raft of new material researched and verified for several media projects. Simply the lectures presented are always fresh and very up to date. Telephone UK 01733 345581
email julianbray@aol.com

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.Questions are gathered
using a roving mic and others pre-submitted,some by i-phone, and all answers and reactions are LIVE and TOTALLY unscripted.Clearly 2012, is a special period, some 100 years following the sinking, so expect strong demand for
confirmed dates. The ITV 'Titanic' television fictional mini series, although the pre-publicity package for the series is fictional and in places not
histricallt correct, will in any case raise the profile of the RMS Titanic story
and generate many Radio and TV strands worldwide. We have already taken up with
the producers the many historical and factual points needng revision, but should
this prove deficient than it is additional word of mouth publicity for the
factual RMS Titanic Talks Series presented by Broadcaster and Writer Julian
Bray.Each RMS Titanic lecture
presentation is highly flexible from 20 to 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 each half. RMS TITANIC THE
LECTURES #1 RMS Titanic Films, Myth and
Mystery How the RMS 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 RMS Titanic story and the myths they created
along the way...#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 others had
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
RMS 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 from 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 retracing the leg from
Southampton to Cobh. Elements of the lectures can also be used as an After
Dinner Speech or Club presentation.Call UK 0044 (0)1733 345581 for
detailse-mail: julianbray@aol.comBroadcast 01733 555319 All CodecsBBC ref: 10476435
###Contributor: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail:
moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581