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00:00I was afraid of the sea but I listened to the people who said take the new
00:16Titanic she cannot come to any harm new inventions have made a safe
00:30he told me that apparently we'd struck something
00:50I didn't become alarmed there was no danger they said
01:04I told her to come at once we were sinking
01:11you can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and your
01:19in the bowels of the ship it makes me panic just thinking about it the story of the Titanic is
01:26the human condition spread out pinned on a board for us to examine then came the terrible cry
01:35women and children women and children two men lifted me up and put me in a boat
01:42it's these small decisions these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome
01:48it really was every man for himself
02:04my heart stood still
02:08if we're gonna die that's to die gripping something
02:25it's a split-second decision what would you do what would I do
02:31it was a terrible sight men swimming and sinking
02:43had been brought up to believe in a hell after death
02:56for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:05and this the day God
03:06will I do it
03:14what would you do
03:18is to bring the home
03:19to see bees
03:21and there will give them a experience
03:24even though they don't Elean
03:26have been destroyed
03:58Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.
04:13I got between 15 and 20.
04:22The engineers put the pumps on.
04:28But also, we'd have gone off to UT stairs on.
04:33Right now on the Titanic, there's a red alert emergency.
04:41Down below in the boiler room, all the crew, the firemen, that would normally be down there, have been called back on shift to try to pump out the water that is flooding into the compartment.
04:53Imagine it, there's steam everywhere.
04:57There's the groaning, creaking, splitting sounds of the ship itself.
05:03It's terrifying.
05:05They are like soldiers going into battle.
05:09With five compartments flooded, the Titanic is going to sink.
05:16They have around an hour and a half until it's going to disappear below the waves.
05:20They're never going to get all of the water out of the ship.
05:23Can they hold it back just a little bit longer in order to try and save everybody on board?
05:28What I think is unfortunate in Titanic is that the captain had not established a mechanism whereby he was getting information about what they were doing.
05:58What the actual damage was in various parts of the ship.
06:02This is something that there should have been being worked on much earlier.
06:06As a result, time was lost.
06:11Once you begin to understand that you are really up against it in terms of time, it goes from,
06:16We can't save the ship, but can we get the passengers from the Titanic to a rescue ship before the Titanic sinks?
06:25The captain knows that the decisions that are made in the coming minutes, hours,
06:30ultimately that will be the decider on how many people will make it off of the ship alive.
06:34Send a call for assistance, ordered the captain.
06:53Which call should I send?
06:58The Regulation International Call for Help.
07:01Just that.
07:03And the captain was gone.
07:07The next moment we sent an urgent distress call.
07:09So in the radio room, right now, it's a race against time.
07:20The operators must send out the distress signal.
07:24It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area that the Titanic is in trouble and needs help.
07:32These two young men, they're in their 20s, and now are responsible for seeking rescue for the unsinkable ship Titanic.
08:02My boats were along the port side.
08:09My idea was that I'd lower the boats and transfer passengers.
08:15They would be perfectly safe in that smooth sea until another ship picked them up.
08:18All right, gentlemen. You know what to do.
08:21Up to this time, we hadn't had a chance for a boat drill, beyond just lowering some of the boats in Southampton.
08:28The crew of the Titanic had been put through a fine sift and caretaken that there were no misfits.
08:39A tap on the shoulder, an indication with the hand, was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.
08:45Clearing away boat covers, calling tight the falls, ready for lowering.
08:52We're not going to see hysteria. We're not even going to see anxiety at this point.
08:56Not least because the information is distorted and fragmented.
09:01Nobody is thinking that the ship is going to sink.
09:04Only Captain Smith really knows the extent of what is happening.
09:09The water, having reached F-deck, showed me she'd been badly hulled.
09:19Although I knew it was serious, I'd not have thought that it was likely to prove fatal.
09:24I figured that she'd go so far until she balanced her buoyancy and there she would remain.
09:31The captain doesn't share the information he has with all the officers that the ship is going down and precisely why he hasn't shared it remains a mystery.
09:43It may be a strategy he doesn't want them to panic.
09:46Maybe reflects an internal chaos.
09:48He doesn't know who to tell or when.
09:50The reality is, for the crew in the Titanic at this moment, they have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
09:58They just know they have a job to do.
10:00They have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
10:31There are 2,208 passengers on board.
10:34They won't all fit in the lifeboats.
10:36So the lifeboats will have to do shuttle runs.
10:38Take passengers to the rescue ship, come back and then take the next lot of passengers.
10:45It's physically possible for them to save all the passengers, but they have to do it in an orderly fashion.
10:51And the people who are going to go first are those whose rooms are closest to the boat deck.
10:55And those are the first class passengers.
10:57In this emergency plan, the wealthy and the powerful have an innate advantage.
11:03They are top of the list.
11:05Suddenly, orders came down.
11:13Everybody to the boats.
11:14All stewards and stewardesses were on duty in their sections to assist and direct people.
11:25I continued through my section, trying to reassure, reminding people to put on warm clothing, take blankets and valuables.
11:37Violet Jessup is a first class stewardess.
11:43She's 24 years old.
11:45She's the youngest stewardess on board.
11:47The first class stewards and stewardesses really are the ones who are responsible for making this evacuation process happen.
11:54They have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control and put these other people first.
12:01Of course, we reiterated from room to room that it was just precautionary measure.
12:12Everywhere I found extraordinary calmness.
12:18People who'd been asleep were dressing, fumbling, sleepy-eyed, with buttons.
12:28They were...
12:29They were unemotional.
12:34Probably thinking, as I did, that it was all too fantastic.
12:39The first class passengers have invested financially, they've spent a lot on their tickets, they've invested psychologically in this being safe and luxurious.
12:52And they therefore cannot believe that it can be anything but that.
12:59It's such a leap of imagination to go against everything they've internalised about this experience and start to believe that something might be going wrong.
13:15Stuart knocked at the door.
13:18Sorry to alarm you, madam, but the captain's orders are that all passengers should put on life belts.
13:27He laughed and joked as he helped us.
13:31Wrap up warmly.
13:32We may have a little trip for an hour or so in one of the lifeboats.
13:38Cosmo was so brave to try and keep us in good spirits, making a bad jest as to how unappetising we both looked in those sickly white life preservers.
13:53Lucy Lady Duff Gordon is one of the most prominent people on board.
13:59After divorcing her previous husband, she managed to build up her business, which is a fashion design house, into a multi-million pound enterprise.
14:09And this is a time when many women don't even have bank accounts.
14:13So she's obviously extraordinary.
14:16She's very resourceful.
14:18And that will come to be important.
14:19I put on a heavy crepe scarf.
14:24I wore the big squirrel coat.
14:27Bought my little velveteen ring bag.
14:29It all looked so pretty.
14:33Just like a bedroom on land.
14:36It didn't seem possible there could be any danger.
14:42A bit of vase of flowers on the washstand slid off and fell to the floor.
14:46A bit of vase of flowers on the washstand slid off.
15:01A bit of vase of flowers on the washstand slid off and fell to the floor.
15:04Yes, yes, this way.
15:21Slowly, people started.
15:24Some joking, taking their time about it.
15:28To those few who showed concern,
15:32a reassuring answer was,
15:34there are plenty of boats in the vicinity.
15:37They'll be with us any moment now.
15:52I heard the crow's nest report a light on the bow.
15:57I went on the bridge right away and found this light.
16:02It was two masthead lights of a steamer just below the horizon.
16:14You could not only see her lights with the naked eye,
16:18you could see the lights of her portals.
16:21The Boxall can see the nearest ship to the Titanic,
16:25which is the California.
16:26The Californian, she's very close by, about 14 miles.
16:31The Californian had already communicated with the Titanic earlier that evening
16:37that she was going to spend the night in the ice flow
16:40because it was too dangerous to continue.
16:43But the Californian would be able to reach Titanic before she sinks.
16:48Captain Smith, we've spotted a steamer on the horizon.
16:57I told the captain about this ship.
16:59He said,
16:59tell them to come at once.
17:02We are sinking.
17:02We are Mummy, King.
17:03It is,
17:09we are sinking.
17:17We are sinking.
17:19Let's get to my ship.
17:19It's us from the Tommy talk story.
17:20I don't know where she sinks.
17:21But I don't know where she sinks,
17:22but we're sinking.
17:23We'll see where she dumps his hands,
17:23but we are sinking in,
17:24but it's not arkadaş dockers too.
17:24It's also like what she does.
17:25We're sinking into our opponers,
17:27and we'll see when he is sinking.
17:28We're sinking separately.
17:29We have sinking before themayı it is.
17:30After the signal had been sent out, the ether seemed to be dead.
17:41No reply came through.
17:47Californian isn't picking up any signals.
17:49The radio operator has gone to bed, not because he's negligent, but because he's allowed to go to bed.
17:54There's no duty to stay in the radio room all night.
17:56And many ships did not ask this of their operators.
18:06But then, suddenly, a chance message comes in from a wireless operator on another ship, the Carpathia.
18:17I was about to retire. I'd taken my coat off.
18:22I should have been turning in in about ten minutes.
18:25Called the Titanic.
18:33And his only answer was, struck a berg.
18:37Come at once.
18:41We told her our position and said we were sinking by the head.
18:44I asked him if he intended me to go get the ship turned round immediately.
18:52And he said yes.
18:54Quick.
18:57The operator went to tell his captain.
19:02The Carpathia is a transatlantic steamship.
19:05She's fast, but she's going in the other direction.
19:09Jack Phillips hears that the radio operator is going to tell the captain that Titanic is in trouble.
19:16The captain of the Carpathia will then make the decision about what to do.
19:21And that usually means to turn your vessel towards the ship that is in distress.
19:26That's the rule of the sea.
19:29So here is a chance of rescue.
19:32As long as Carpathia is able to get there in time.
19:37As long as Carpathia is able to get there in time.
20:07As long as it happened by the stewards to be going away in a boat,
20:10it didn't seem possible that all this could actually be happening.
20:19It was the strangest scene.
20:22People bundled up in old clothes, boarding lifeboats in the night.
20:32Few seemed to want to brave the dark sea in an open boat.
20:35And it was only after considerable coaxing that many went at all.
20:44People don't want to get in.
20:46Why would you want to get out of your warm bed and go in a lifeboat into the freezing water when there's no problem?
20:51You wouldn't.
20:52This is like a really annoying fire drill at school.
20:56And everybody says, no, I'll just stay here until it's finished.
20:59At that point in time, the general public weren't really trusted.
21:05Keeping people in ignorance was considered better.
21:07And we know today that actually people will respond much more sensibly in an emergency if they do have some information.
21:14That information was completely lacking at this point on Titanic.
21:18We were just walking forward when a sailor tried to drag me away from Cosmo.
21:46The officers called for women and children.
21:52So Captain Smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated and they should be prioritized.
21:58On the port side, the second officer, Officer Lightoller, interprets it as women and children only.
22:07The consequence of this is that if you are a family turning up on the port side, you will be separated and the men will not be allowed on the lifeboats.
22:21Saving the lives of women and children comes from deep in the Edwardian mindset.
22:30Women at the time are seen as having a kind of childish status.
22:34I mean, this is before they've been allowed to vote.
22:37And they are perceived to have a physical and mental weakness that means that men have to be their protectors.
22:45Please step back, sir. Please step back.
22:47I have no such ideas about my husband.
22:53It would have been too awful to have been alone.
22:55Every time Officer Lightoller prevents a man from getting into a lifeboat, there is the possibility that his wife won't go, that they will stay on board the ship.
23:08So he's actually potentially endangering the lives of the precise people he's been told to prioritize to save.
23:15In a great emergency like that, where there were limited facilities, could you not have put more people into boats?
23:44I did not know it was urgent then.
23:50I had no idea it was urgent.
23:54You did not know it was urgent?
23:57Nothing like it.
24:08Lightoller wants to do a good job, clearly.
24:10Maybe if he'd known the ship was sinking, he would have allowed men in to fill up the spaces in the lifeboats.
24:19But because the captain is withholding information, people like Lightoller can't do their job properly and this will have disastrous consequences.
24:27What one wants is to have a very good relationship, a band of brothers, and when you've got that, you must keep them informed of what's going on and what we call nowadays mission command.
24:42In other words, you let them know what you want to achieve overall, you tell them all the facts, and then you let them get on with it.
24:49I think that Captain Smith was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening and was not really grasping it and taking charge.
24:58Up and down!
25:08The garsanniler wants to run the fishing place to come to her!
25:11Hermana gets their hands on the ground.
25:14Alex, he's already injured by the FW map.
25:16Rадиaryal is now going to be dead and isсьful.
25:18I think this is an amazing ship.
25:23The CANNOTese heised and the amended Đây being Perrier.
25:26The Operator returned and told us the Carpathia was putting about and heading for us.
25:39Our captain had left us at this time.
25:41Phillips told me to run and tell him what the Carpathia had answered.
25:49I went through an awful mass of people to his cabin.
25:54The decks were full.
26:01I came back and heard Phillips giving the Carpathia full of directions.
26:04He told me to put my clothes on.
26:10Until that moment, I forgot I wasn't dressed.
26:15I went to my cabin and dressed and brought an overcoat to Phillips.
26:20It was very cold. I slipped the overcoat on him while it worked.
26:27Imagine the relief in the radio room.
26:30Carpathia has answered the distress call, is coming their way.
26:35But, although she's going as fast as she can, she's having to go through the same ice field where Titanic has floundered.
26:49She's four hours away and Titanic isn't going to stay afloat that long.
26:54The nearest ship to Titanic is the Californian, but the radio operators still asleep.
27:10Nobody is aware of any problem on the Titanic.
27:13The crew of the Titanic have to think on their feet.
27:20So they start to use Morse lamps and send a signal using light rather than sound.
27:27The ship was close enough, I thought, to read our electric Morse signal.
27:33So I signalled her.
27:38I told her to come at once. We were sinking.
27:43The captain was with me most of the time we were signalling.
27:46I would signal with the Morse and then go back and look at the ship.
27:56I cannot say I saw any reply.
27:58In a crisis, you just have to increase your chances of survival.
28:11Survival is all about probability.
28:13You know, throwing as much muck at the wall as possible and seeing what sticks.
28:20Then we started sending off these distressed rockets.
28:23The quartermaster and I on the bridge.
28:28They go right up into the air and throw stars.
28:58Right now, the water is rising up through the body of the ship.
29:19The waterproof bulkheads only went up to a certain level.
29:25By this stage, water was tipping over bulkheads and cascading into the next compartment.
29:31So compartment after compartment was being filled by water.
29:39And as this mass of water breaches the bulkheads,
29:42it starts flowing back on itself, making cascades and waterfalls,
29:47coming down the narrow staircases.
30:06Third-class passengers in the bowels of the ship are at most risk.
30:09They were really left in the dark.
30:11They are wading through water.
30:15They're not aware of what's going on, the rescue mission going on in the upper decks.
30:19They had to work it out themselves.
30:21My husband had left some money in our cabin.
30:25And there were all our clothes and things that we were taking to America.
30:35Salini is from Hardin, which was in Lebanon.
30:46And she's a newlywed bride.
30:48And her older husband is taking her to live with him in America.
30:53They are caught between going up to the higher decks and the desire to keep their belongings.
31:03It's easy to underestimate just how important things are to a migrant,
31:10to someone who's leaving home forever.
31:13Do you want to arrive in New York destitute with nothing to your name,
31:17nothing to pay for a room?
31:20Of course not.
31:27We returned to try and get our clothes, money, and jewelry.
31:34We started down for them.
31:41But the water on our deck was waist deep.
31:44We never got there.
31:50Depending on where you are in the ship right now, you're going to start seeing a lot of water.
32:04The third class passengers in particular.
32:07Water in any quantity is terrifying because you can't push it away, you can't fight it.
32:14People are now seeing evidence with their own eyes.
32:17It's not rumor.
32:18It's not gossip.
32:19It's not even that they're waiting to be told.
32:21They can see, feel that there is a problem.
32:25By this time, the ship seemed to have tilted forward a little.
32:40And we heard queer noises as if the ship was being pulled about.
32:47Charlotte Collier is a second-class passenger.
33:01She's traveling with her husband, Harvey, and her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie.
33:05Charlotte has health issues.
33:06She has tuberculosis.
33:07So she's eager to find a new climate for her health, as well as whatever economic benefit they might get from migrating.
33:16While this whole hour has passed in which the first-class passengers are being evacuated, they were told to stay in their cabin.
33:31They are sitting there and worrying, and no one is telling them anything.
33:37Suddenly, we heard people running along the passageway in front of our door.
33:52Their feet reminded me of rats scurrying.
33:57I could see my face had grown very white.
34:00My husband stammered when he spoke to me.
34:05He said we had better go on deck and see what's wrong.
34:10For anyone that was feeling confused or was just following the rules, it's very clear something major is now happening.
34:27It's going to be terrifying, especially if you're a parent with a young child.
34:33When we went on board the Titanic, every possession was with us.
34:44Neither of us took any belongings from the cabin.
34:48My husband even left his watch lying on his pillow.
34:52I had a big dolly that I got two Christmases before.
34:59And we were in such a hurry that I left it behind.
35:05I cried for my dolly, but we couldn't go back.
35:18When we reached the deck, there was a great many people.
35:33Some of them were crying.
35:38I was crying for my doll, but nobody could go back and get her.
35:42An officer said, you should put on life preservers.
35:51So, mother put one on me and then fastened one around herself.
35:57Papa put one on too.
36:00My husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question.
36:10Excuse me.
36:11Yes, sir.
36:12What's going on?
36:13I heard him shout back, keep calm.
36:16There's no danger.
36:18Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
36:23The captain knows.
36:24A few of the officers know.
36:26But it's important to keep this away because of panic.
36:30But now, because of the noise, the tilt,
36:33people are realising that something is wrong.
36:36All the water that had been thrown on the furnaces,
36:54just making the stock all thick, was clean.
36:59Mr Shepherds was walking across in a hurry to do something.
37:03And he fell down the hole and broke his leg.
37:14He lifted him up and carried him.
37:28There was a knocking noise.
37:30All at once, I saw a wave of green foam tearing between the boilers.
37:36A rush of water came through.
37:43I never stopped to look.
37:45I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:47A huge wave of green water comes flying through into the room
38:04because the coal bunker has been gradually filling up and filling up
38:08and filling up with the pressure.
38:10And then it bursts and suddenly it's all over them.
38:14Another engineer, Jonathan Shepard, has already slipped and broken his leg,
38:19so he can't escape this wall of water.
38:23And he's the first casualty to die on the Titanic.
38:39I went off the escape and into the main alleyway.
38:42The Titanic was sloping down by the head.
39:01Water was coming down the alleyway from forward.
39:04Now that boiler room five is filled with water, the engineers realise that all their efforts are futile.
39:18There's no point pumping it out anymore.
39:21It's coming in faster than anyone can manage it.
39:29This is a moment of terror and certainty.
39:35Perhaps this is the first moment where these brave men realise
39:40that the ship is going to go down.
39:42All passengers upstairs, at last.
40:02I...
40:05I returned to my room.
40:07I began tidying up, folding my nightgown, putting everything in its place.
40:22There was... there was no sound.
40:26Titanic might have been in dock and all the crew gone home.
40:30I saw Stanley at the door, watching me.
40:45And he...
40:47He almost shouted at me as he seized my arm.
40:51My God, don't you realise this ship will sink?
40:55You have to follow the rest upstairs as quickly as possible.
40:58Sinking.
41:03Sinking.
41:08The word...
41:10repeated itself without fully...
41:14fully entering my understanding.
41:20My mind could not accept that the super...
41:23perfect creation...
41:26was to do so futile a thing...
41:28as sink.
41:30Of course...
41:32Titanic...
41:34couldn't be... sinking.
41:35Sinking.
41:51Suddenly...
41:53there was a commotion near one of the gangways...
41:55and...
41:56we saw a stoker...
41:59come up from below.
42:03All the fingers...
42:05of one hand...
42:06had been cut off.
42:10Blood was...
42:12running from the stumps...
42:14and was spattered...
42:16on his face and clothes.
42:18It...
42:20brought up a picture of...
42:23smashed engines...
42:25and...
42:27mangled human bodies.
42:29I went over to speak to him.
42:32I asked him...
42:34if there was any danger.
42:36Danger.
42:38I should say so.
42:41It's hell down below.
42:45This ship will sink like a stone.
42:52At this moment, I...
42:55got my first grip...
42:57of fear.
43:05and...
43:15Those in charge...
43:16herded us...
43:17towards the nearest boat.
43:22Then...
43:24above the clamour...
43:25came the terrible cry...
43:28Lower the boat...
43:29women and children.
43:31Women and children only.
43:33That's women and children only.
43:36Someone was shouting...
43:37these last few words...
43:38over...
43:39and over again.
43:41Women and children only.
43:42That's women and children only.
43:44That's women and children only.
43:45Women and children only.
43:47Women and children only.
43:48Women and children only.
43:52It might be that Lightoller...
43:54has this kind of rigid view...
43:55of the world.
43:56He's come in with...
43:57a set of rules.
43:59It might be that...
44:00under this stressful situation...
44:01it's the only way he can function.
44:02He can't cope with...
44:04more information...
44:05and more decision-making...
44:06so he just sticks...
44:07to this one option.
44:23Cosmo...
44:24pleaded with me.
44:26Well, three or four boats...
44:27were launched...
44:28but...
44:29I refused.
44:32I only said...
44:33promise me...
44:34that whatever you do...
44:35you will not...
44:36let them separate us.
44:38And I clung to him.
44:40He saw that there was no use...
44:41resisting me.
44:42We'll go round to the starboard side...
44:43Cosmo said...
44:44it might be better there.
44:48One of the pivotal facts...
44:49about the loading of the lifeboats...
44:50is this.
44:51There are different protocols...
44:52on each side of the ship.
44:53One of the pivotal facts...
44:55about the loading of the lifeboats...
44:56is this.
44:57There are different protocols...
44:58on each side of the ship...
44:59on the starboard side...
45:01officer Murdoch's approach...
45:03is more pragmatic...
45:04it's more flexible.
45:08There are different protocols on each side of the ship.
45:13On the starboard side, Officer Murdoch's approach is more pragmatic, it's more flexible.
45:23It was better, for although there were crowds, there was no confusion.
45:32The lifeboats were being quietly filled.
45:34If you emerge on the starboard side, then Officer Murdoch might well allow the men to join the women and their children if there are spaces left.
45:49So there's Murdoch allowing men to fill up the spare places. Why not? Murdoch doesn't want to split families up.
46:00Murdoch, I think, probably had a sense of wanting to preserve life.
46:04And Light Hollow had a stricter, more patriarchal view, perhaps, of men should sacrifice themselves for women and children.
46:16But the fact that it was happening on the same ship at the same time shows just how vague this policy was.
46:24So it matters very much which side of the ship you're on if you're a man.
46:31brought in.
46:32Let's go up there.
46:41Let's go.
46:45I was walking up and down the bridge, saw white lights in the sky, in the direction
47:09of this other steamer.
47:15I thought perhaps the ship was in communication with some other ship, or possibly signalling
47:21to us to tell us she had big icebergs around her.
47:24It didn't occur to me the ship was in distress.
47:28I just thought there were white rockets, that's all.
47:31It might have been anything.
47:35We called her up repeatedly on the Morse lamp and received no answer whatsoever.
47:46Some people say she replied to our rockets and our signals, but I didn't see any of them.
47:54We'll never know why there was miscommunication between the Californian and Titanic.
48:00There seems to have been some confusion about the colour of these rockets.
48:05Were they distress signals?
48:07It's also possible that Boxall didn't see Californian's Morse lamp reply, because there's something
48:13strange about the atmospheric conditions that night.
48:17You've got this weird effect of warm air underneath and colder air on top, which is creating a kind
48:23of mirage effect.
48:25Shapes are being distorted in the darkness.
48:30What a chance her captain missed.
48:39He could have laid his ship right alongside the Titanic and taken practically every soul
48:46on board.
48:51However, he didn't.
49:00This must be the bitterest blow for those people who could see the ship nearby.
49:07I don't think it was bad faith.
49:08I don't think it was negligence.
49:09I think everything conspired that night to go against Titanic's chances of safety and salvation.
49:16We'll do it later on.
49:42Because the earlier lifeboats went out half full, there are now only about 900 places
50:03left on the lifeboats and more than 2,000 people on board the ship.
50:09If people don't get onto a lifeboat, they will go down with the Titanic.
50:17Suddenly, we saw some sailors who were launching a little boat, it was a captain's special boat.
50:31Lucy Duff Gordon knows that she needs to get off the ship.
50:38This is the moment to take one of those spaces.
50:45My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.
50:57We were helped in, followed by two American men who came up at the last minute.
51:07There is something here about being in the right place in the right time but also seizing
51:12the opportunity and having the confidence to do so.
51:21I think that class probably had a huge impact on people's sense of entitlement to safety,
51:26to rescue.
51:29We probably did assume that if you bought a first class ticket then that would buy you
51:34survival.
51:36They are people who are important in the world.
51:39They see themselves as having more value than people in steerage.
51:45And there they are as a couple sitting safely in a lifeboat.
51:49I shall never forget how black and deep the water looked below us.
52:04Men standing nearby joked with us because we were going out on the ocean.
52:09You'll get your death of cold out there amid the ice.
52:39I found myself clinging to my husband's arm with little Marjorie beside me.
52:54I did not want to leave him.
52:58Charlotte knows she'll be separated from her hospital.
53:01Not knowing if and when they'd be reunited, I think she probably was just thinking, please,
53:04no, not this.
53:06I want to survive, but not at this cost.
53:10Dilemmas that you just have to accept in that moment, those are, yeah, those are heavy.
53:22Officer Lytola, you know, the man's been at sea since he was 13.
53:28He doesn't have that understanding of what it means when a woman is clinging to her husband, when a child is crying for their father.
53:36He just goes ahead with what he believes to be right.
53:41But it's not objectively right.
53:45From what you have said, you discriminated entirely in the interest of the women and children in filling those lifeboats.
53:53Yes.
53:54Why did you do that?
53:57Because of the captain's orders or because of the rule of the sea?
54:01The rule of human nature.
54:09The deck seemed to be slipping under my feet.
54:13I hung onto my husband's arm and although he was very brave and not trembling, I saw his face was white as paper.
54:31I caught all-starboard.
54:35That sliding doors moment will determine who survives and who doesn't.
54:40Keep moving along the deck.
54:41We are coming to lifeboats.
54:42Women and children only.
54:43That's women and children only.
54:45Women and children.
54:46Women and children.
54:48They struck utter terror into my heart and now they'll ring in my ears till I die.
54:58When I talk for a moment...
54:59...
55:08If you don't just see the kids on the bench, I pray for those men to resist that door outside the doors at Ig protesters.
55:17You never ask any questions you want, cut it.
55:22Let's namesmons.
55:24What are these my Sw�드릴 houses?
55:26There was a lot of confusion, people crying, swearing, and praying.
55:52There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers.
55:56Chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands.
56:01Chekhov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it.
56:05All of the order has been lost.
56:08I called out, don't shoot!
56:20A new ghost story for Christmas from the macabre mind of Margatis.
56:24Press red to watch The Room in the Tower on BBC iPlayer.
56:29The Room in the Tower on BBC iPlayer
56:59Peach and the City, Bill Yard.
57:03And the light of your mind is et recommended.
57:05After mid to the left, that's the master is ready.
57:07Check him out.
57:09My hair can only be relaxed here, and смотрю.
57:13He shall fit one day.
57:16And now he scores.
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57:19So hurry up let it rise.
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