Gunther takes Emma to a bar in waterfront Red Hook to meet an Irishman who claims to have worked in the Belfast shipyard where the Titanic was built.

He’d been worried about the ship’s structural soundness, in particular in the keel plates that would have been exposed to unprecedented stress in this huge vessel.

He also claims that the ship was doomed even before it left port.

Emma is unsettled by a dawning fear that establishing any kind of truth about the Titanic is going to be harder than she thought.

Returning to Red Hook to follow up, they see the harbor police hauling a body out of the Hudson River. It’s the Belfast shipyard worker. It’s either an accidental drowning or somebody has made sure he’s silenced.

Written by Ron Hutchinson.

EMMA ……Jasmine Hyde
DANNY …. Nathan Osgood
SWANSON .… Colin Stinton
HAVERMAYER … Matt Rippy
DOCTOR ….Patrick Bailey
Reception Clerk .... Laurel Lefkow

Director: Eoin O'Callaghan

A Big Fish Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2019. Show less