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

Monday, 30 April 2012

TITANIC TENDER: Nomadic Preservation Society

Nomadic Preservation Society

PO Box 1422

Belfast

BT4 9AT

April 2012

Dear Member,

On Wednesday 25^th April 2012 the Nomadic Preservation Society held its Members meeting in the Belmont Centre Belmont Church Road, Belfast. Approximately 40 members attended and a vibrant and worthwhile meeting took place.

Unfortunately, not all members can attend these meetings due to physical distance, other duties and of course illness and infirmity. It is with this in mind that I am compiling this report to keep all informed as best at possible.

Our Chairman David Scott Beddard and a few other Committee members were unable to attend for the various reasons given above and the meeting was jointly chaired by our Treasurer Mrs Liz James and me as Membership Secretary. Miss Frances James as Secretary also attended.

100 Years On ....

You may have been wondering why I haven’t blogged about the plethora of Titanic documentaries and dramas we have been treated too. Then again, if you are a regular reader (and thank you) you may already have guessed I am waiting until ‘it’s all over’ and we can go back to having an interesting discussion about Titanic.

Tonight on the Balmoral passengers will sit down to a last dinner on the Titanic gala meal. I do think this deserves some sort of bad taste award; it just doesn’t sit comfortably with me. I will ‘come clean’ and say Julian and I were offered several of these one off 'special' cruise lectures about Titanic, but as our forward schedule was pretty well full, we had to decline. We look forward to will being back on board Royal Caribbean, Princess and Carnival cruise ships later this year.

TITANIC AWARD WINNING TALKS & LECTURES

RMS TITANIC LECTURES & THEATRICAL 2013 PRESENTATIONAL FORMAT RELEASED

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 with astonishing 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.

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