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
Aug 18
On Titanic, Nostalgia and Chasing Eternal Whimsy, w/ Molly McCormack (from Mammoth Club)!
Watch me try not to fan girl TOO HARD as I get to chat all things growing up as a Titanic-head with Molly McCormack, part of the amazingly successful and wonderful Mammoth Club. We also talk Disney, the magic of movies, the nostalgia and nerdiness that all becomes the connective ... Show More
53m 19s
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
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