Join me for an exploration of the life of Third Class Passenger Hilda Hellstrom. In November of this year, a group of Titanic researchers, enthusiasts and descendants assembled to honor her life and memories with a new headstone at Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois. This episode is an amalgam of that experience, with descendant interviews conducted ... Show More
Jun 7
Unsinkable: A New Play + Lots of Bruce Ismay, with Writer Matthew Reynolds.
An exciting new Titanic project: "Unsinkable is a shattering new play from Liverpool creatives Matthew Reynolds and Joseph Winder, developed from a finalist piece at Tip Tray Theatre’s What Happens Next? 2025, now a full-scale production heading to Hope Street Theatre from 30th S ... Show More
39m 56s
Apr 25
What If: Robert Ballard Had Taken a Teaspoon from the Wreck of Titanic?! (w/ Pablo O'Hana)
What if Robert Ballad, who discovered the wreck of Titanic in 1985 alongside a French oceanographic team, had decided to salvage Titanic himself? How would the Titanic world look now? The artifacts, where would they be, how many would their be? Join us as we jump into one of the ... Show More
1h 24m
Aug 2020
Life in LA & sinking ships
In this episode of Thick & Thin, I give an update about my life in LA, now that I've been here for 1 month officially. I chat about the many changes I've been experiencing, especially in comparison to my previous life in NYC. Later in the episode, I tell the incredible story of M ... Show More
46m 45s
Oct 2021
EP93: The Titanic’s Last Hero, Peace for the Warrior: Life Moves Yoga and Lessons From Gizmo the Dog
On this episode of Our American Stories, Lowell Lytle saw the Titanic first-hand and he tells his story and the story of The Titanic’s Last Hero; Beth Funk tells the story of her Yoga studio near Fort Hood, Texas that's been helping our men and women in uniform and anyone who wan ... Show More
38m 16s
Apr 2022
E64: Mildred Fish-Harnack, part 2
Concluding part of our double podcast episode about Mildred Fish-Harnack, the US-born woman at the centre of the underground resistance to Nazism in Berlin during World War II. In conversation with Rebecca Donner, Mildred’s great great niece and author of All the Frequent Trouble ... Show More
47m 42s