Podcast Corner: Actor Paul McGann has a family link to tale of the Titanic
The SS Titanic is the subject of a podcast hosted by Paul McGann. Picture: PA Photo
The Noiser network is home to dozens of history podcasts - over 600 episodes - ranging from Napoleon to Hitler to Sherlock Holmes and hosted by domestic historian Ruth Goodman and with episodes on sheds, laundry, bins, and heating. Noiser’s latest series is one most of us in Ireland will be familiar with.
Launched on April 8, is hosted by actor Paul McGann ( , etc), who sets out what we can expect over the course of the series, from first designs and the years of construction in Belfast to “the fateful voyage that sealed the ship’s fate and beyond”, considering some of the questions that haunt Titanic scholars more than 100 years later: Was the captain really ordered to increase speed, why were so many iceberg warnings ignored in the leadup to the collision, and with almost 1,200 places available on the lifeboats, why were only 700 people saved?
