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.
100 years is a long period of time, and it’s hard to appreciate just how things have changed. But, imagine if you would a time say of 100 years in the future. A last dinner in the Twin Towers, sounds awful doesn’t it? No one alive will ‘know’ anyone who was there, but that’s not the point really is it?
Time and time again over the last few weeks I’ve heard the same old rubbish, Isamy was ‘bad’, third class were denied lifeboats etc etc, and mistakes that make you hide behind the cushions. My fear is having watched this rubbish, it will now become the accepted truth in people’s minds ‘we saw it on the TV’, but I also hope a lot of people will start doing their own reading and enjoy the history or some other aspect its held my interest for almost 40 years now.
Contributors: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray NUJ, Equity Tel:01733 345581 BBC No: 10476453 Home isdn 01733 555319 2012 Anniversary RMS Titanic Illustrated Lecture Series now available, please enquire.
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