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The team at TBI are delighted with the fantastic reaction to our live programme which went out on Saturday 14th April on BBC Radio 2 exactly 100 years after the Titanic disaster in 1912.  The show started at 11.35pm just before the iceberg hit and ended at 2.20am when the ship disappeared.

 

The programme was presented by Jeremy Vine, Dermot O’Leary and Penny Smith, who together with our Titanic experts, took us through minute by minute what was happening to the passengers and crew, the structure of the ship and the musicians who made up the ship’s band.  The programme included actors reading the accounts of over 30 eye-witnesses – from First Class aristocracy to steerage passengers and by sticking to the facts the programme presented an authentic idea of what really happened.

 

Music made up a large part of life onboard the Titanic before and during the night of the 14th of April, and music was also at the heart of our programme. Our very own Titanic orchestra recreated the music that was played on the ship – a mixture of classical pieces, ragtime (the rock ‘n roll of the age) and stirring anthems.  Our band also played alongside special musical performances from Billy Bragg (who wrote a song especially for us) Paul Carrack, Hue and Cry, Hal Fowler, Jacqui Dankworth, Charlie Wood and BBC2 Folk Awards winner Bella Hardy.

 

The original band had a significant, if surreal presence in the sinking of the Titanic. The ship’s band continued to play throughout the night and kept passengers occupied with foxtrots, show songs and extracts from operas such as Madam Butterfly and Aida. It seems strange now and must have seemed strange then, that as the boats were lowered Alexander’s Ragtime Band echoed around the decks and over the water. This was surely one of the most poignant performances in history.

 

The band continued to perform as the water rose around them, some still smoking.  One eye-witness wrote ‘Only the engulfing ocean had the power to drown them into silence.’

 

Photo: Jonathan Smith Collection

 

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