The Sinking of the RMS Titanic: Part Six - Life At Sea

Episode 5 of our ten-part series onThe Titanic Disaster takes place entirely before anything goes wrong. It’s Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13. Ireland is 300 miles behind. America is still three days ahead. The engines are warming up — 386 miles Thursday to Friday, 519 miles Friday to Saturday, 546 on Sunday before the iceberg ends the count. The ship is a self-contained world of 2,208 people, and for these two days, everything is working exactly as designed.The free episode covers life across all three classes, Thomas Andrews walking the decks with his notebook cataloguing minor imperfections, and the orchestra playing its scheduled concerts — six times daily, from morning classical to evening ragtime — unaware that Sunday night would require a very different kind of performance.The premium episode goes deeper into four stories the free version can only touch: the professional gamblers preying on first-class passengers, the children aboard and what happened to them, the crew’s world below decks, and what the ship meant to the 706 third-class immigrants who boarded with everything they owned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.