Testimony from the archives of the US Senate's investigation into the sinking of the Titanic moves on to an early confrontation with cheque-book journalism in 1912.

The inventor of the wireless, Guglielmo Marconi, takes the stand.

From over a thousand pages of testimony in the Inquiry Archives, the conclusion of Bob Sherman's gripping two-part courtroom drama.

Senator William Alden Smith ... Kenneth Haigh
Guglielmo Marconi ... John Sessions
Senator Fletcher ... John Sharian
George Rowe ... Peter Marinker
Charles Herbert Lightoller ... Conrad Nelson
Harold Bride ... Ben Crowe
Frederick Fleet ...Tom George
Female Voices ... Barbara Barnes
Male Voice ... Peter Marinker

Director: Ned Chaillet

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002. Show less