Ship of Lies

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With McBride feared murdered, Emma and Danny realise their lives maybe at risk.

With McBride feared murdered, Emma and Danny realise their investigation may be putting their lives at risk. Stars Jasmine Hyde.

With McBride now dead, feared murdered, it begins to dawn on Emma and Danny that their investigation in New York may be putting their own lives at grave risk.

Given the financial consequences of the Titranic’s loss – insurance claims are already running into the millions – the Marconi Company isn’t admitting any liability. Indeed, it seems to be reluctantly providing only the information it’s required to by law.

That’s still a considerable mass of material and, buried inside it, is a copy of a telegram which purported to come from the White Star line in the immediate aftermath of the first report of trouble. It countermanded the SOS, stating that the ship sustained minor damage, no one has been injured and it's steaming unhindered to New York.

"What if somebody sent that fake telegram to make money in the stock market?" Danny suggests.

Emma discovers two lists of names.  One is the definitive list of the 1500 or so people who died on the ship. 

The other is much shorter, but much more significant. It’s the names of those who were booked to travel on the Titanic but cancelled at the last moment. The names of those who stood to benefit by the sinking. 

And Danny claims he now knows what their motives were in wanting it go down and who were the real targets of what was, in effect, mass murder.

Written by Ron Hutchinson.

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

Director:  Eoin O'Callaghan

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

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