TITANIC TALK

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  TITANIC TALK | Nelson & Alexandra Season Three Roundup 15.12.2025 51min

  Nelson and Alexandra wrap up Season 3 with a look back at the wonderful conversations they've had this year. LISTEN AGAIN TO ~ The Amazon Prime release of Ship of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries The release of Nelson's book Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleTitanic exhibition organizer, Joe GoldAuthor of The Six, Steven SchwankertSpecial Round table episode on The Queen Mary for the 113th AnniversaryTitanic actress Fannie Brett Brittany Butler and Zach Douglas musing on Rose's life post ...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Actress Alex Owens-Sarno 01.12.2025 38min

  For the final episode of Season Three Nelson and Alexandra came full circle and back to James Cameron's Titanic with one of the film's most memorable, and arguably the cutest, supporting characters. Alex Owens-Sarno was seven going on eight years old when she landed her first film role opposite Leonardo Di Caprio. Alex tells us about dancing with Leo, working with James Cameron and her infamous death scene that was cut because it was too upsetting. Alex is all grown up now and works an actres...
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  TITANIC TALK | Author of TITANIC LEGACY: The Captain, The Daughter & The Spy, Dan E Parkes 06.10.2025 42min

  Nelson and Alexandra spend an intriguing and revealing conversation with Dan Parkes, cinematographer and the author of a fascinating and meticulously researched book he wrote about Captain Smith of Titanic and the legacy his daughter lived with throughout her storied life - a pilot, a politician and married to a spy who died in suspicious circumstances... This conversation could have spanned two Titanic Talk Episodes. The telling of Helen Melville Russell Cooke's life (1898-1973) in Dan...
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  TITANIC TALK | Leadership Differences in Titanic's Rescue with Kelly Skwarcan 25.08.2025 33min

  In this episode, Nelson and Alexandra talk Titanic's rescue with Kelly Skwarcan. She is an author, speaker and researcher weaving in the stories of three ship's captains in her book - The Full Tale of the Titanic: Iron and Ice and into her interactive case study presentation “Leadership in Crisis: The Titanic, Carpathia, & Californian”. Two ships were close to Titanic as she sank. The Carpathian and the Californian. Captain Lord ignored Titanic's SOS signals despite being only ten...
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  TITANIC TALK | British Titanic Society Chairman David Scott-Beddard 11.08.2025 39min

  Find out all about the workings and origin of the British Titanic Society from their chairman David Scott-Beddard, who also owns White Star Memories, one of the premiere Titanic exhibition companies in the world. He was also a key player in finding, raising awareness, raising funds and restoring one of Titanic's tender ships - the Nomadic. Listen to this fascinating new episode where Nelson and Alexandra hear also about David's new venture restoring two train carriages that travelled Ti...
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  TITANIC TALK | How Were Titanic's Bodies Recovered with Clinton Bonelli - Death Care Specialist 21.07.2025 42min

  This is a solemn and unusual episode, Nelson and Alexandra speak with Clinton Bonelli. They met their new Titaniac friend on the Queen Mary over Titanic Weekend 2025 and immediately found each other to be kindred spirits. Clinton's is a mortuary science specialist and death care professor, so Nelson had the idea to invite him on to Titanic Talk to tell us about the recovery of the bodies of Titanic's victims and how they were treated in 1912. It's well known that only one lifeboat returned to...
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  TITANIC TALK | Rose's Heart Will Go On... 07.07.2025 45min

  So this Titanic Talk episode is a little different. Nelson and Alexandra wanted to pose the question of what exactly happened to Rose after she disembarked the Carpathia. Who did she marry and have children with and why oh why didn't she sell The Heart of the Ocean!? These questions and many more, along with "WHO is your Titanic Crush?", are posed and answered with return guests - and fellow stars of Ship of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries, Brittany Butler, of the wonderful James Cameron's Tita...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Actress ~ Fannie Brett ~ Madame Aubert 26.05.2025 35min

  Nelson and Alexandra share an animated and nostalgic conversation with the charmingly French Fannie Brett. All three of them are 'ex-pat' Angelenos so they reminisce about Los Angeles life and work in the 90s and their dinners at El Coyote - and you though they only drank margaritas in Rosarito Beach, Mexico! Fannie is still acting but she is also a renown voice actor/teacher, casting director and producer. She has a successful dubbing studio which she runs from Las Vegas. In 1996, howe...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Weekend Podcast Roundtable with Titanic Legacy & Witness Titanic 25.04.2025 52min

  Nelson and Alexandra had the pleasure of spending Titanic Weekend (April 12th & 13th) on The Queen Mary in Long Beach CA presenting their book (Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale) and film (Ship of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries) respectively and joining the Titanic podcast triumvirate of Paul Carganilla and his Titanic Legacy podcast, and James Penca and his Witness Titanic podcast, in a roundtable recording made in front of a live audience in the Mauritania Room. LISTEN to a fascinati...
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  TITANIC TALK | Author & Titanic Documentarian Steven Schwankert Talks About His New Book - THE SIX 24.03.2025 37min

  Nelson and Alexandra spent a wonderful second podcast conversation with returning author and documentarian Steven Schwankert. In Season Two Steven was on the podcast talking about his extraordinary and groundbreaking film THE SIX about the surviving Chines passengers on Titanic who very few people had heard of since they disembarked at New York in 1912. Steven has expanded the story and his research into his new book The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors. He delves m...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Boston Exhibitor Joe Gold 17.03.2025 32min

  In this episode, Nelson and Alexandra learn a bit about the business of Titanic from Joe Gold of The Gold Group, the promotional company behind the Titanic Artefact Exhibition in Boston. Joe talks about some of the fascinating artefacts they have on display including a toilet from third class and a perfectly preserved wool suit retrieved from a leather suitcase in the debris field. They discuss the importance of preservation and education. The Boston exhibition is one of more than forty...
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  TITANIC TALK | Nelson Aspen Talks About His New Book ~ Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale 03.03.2025 28min

  Welcome to the 50th episode of Titanic Talk. That's something to celebrate along with Nelson's new book! Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale is a historical fantasy set on the ill-fated maiden voyage of Titanic and present day Manhattan. Nelson and Alexandra talk about his book, their upcoming presenting appearances on the Queen Mary in Long Beach on April 12th & 13th for the Titanic Anniversary Weekend and their hopes and expectations for events and guests in Season Three. Buy Kindred Spi...
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  TITANIC TALK | Announcing the Release of Ship of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries on Feb 11th 2025 10.02.2025 31min

  We're back!! Season Three of Titanic Talk begins with Nelson and Alexandra announcing the release of Alexandra's Titanic documentary SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES on Feb 11th 2025. The film features Titanic actors, fans and historians recounting stories from the set and also the Titanic fans (Titaniacs) sharing their passion for the film and the history of the ship. Distributed by Freestyle Media. Available on DVD on Amazon.com NOTES ~ Follow on Instagram @shipofdreamsfilm Website s...
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  TITANIC TALK | Nelson & Alexandra Round Up Season Two 10.09.2024 1t 18min

  We cannot believe we are here at the end of our second spectacular season. Oh what guests we have had and what Titanic Talks there have been! In this special extended podcast, Nelson and Alexandra revisit each of their twenty two guests before taking a break. Stay tuned though - that means please LIKE, COMMENT & SUBSCRIBE - so that you don't miss any of the special events we have planned for the new year. LINKS to your favourite episodes can be found on Buzzsprout, Spotify, Apple Podca...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Actor & VFX Wizard Van Ling 19.08.2024 42min

  Nelson and Alexandra round out twenty three amazing guests on Titanic Talk with Van Ling - James Cameron's closest collaborators and Right Hand Man on many of his epic movies. Van Ling. Van tells the story of how he first came to the notice of Gail Anne Hurd after building a Hallowe'en costume (an Aliens power lifter) on a bet and showing up at Lightstorm wearing it! For students of film, he takes us through his journey from USC film school to VFX and directing, spelling out how his tenacit...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Perfume Historian Jen Siems 05.08.2024 35min

  Jen has a fascination with perfume and specifically the history of perfume and is the perfumer behind Immortal Perfumes, a micro-perfumery specializing in historically inspired scents. Her creations have been featured in New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and Seattle Met among others. Jen researches and writes about historical figures and their fragrances for her popular TikTok channel. She also writes fiction and has been published in several anthologies. Nelson and Alexandra had a ...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titaniac & Journalist Lloyd Burr 22.07.2024 32min

  Lloyd's obsession with Titanic began with a library book, Robert Ballard's The Discovery of the Titanic. He borrowed it so many times, the librarian asked him to stop checking it out so that other children might enjoy reading it. Seeing James Cameron's Titanic at the age of ten sealed the deal. Lloyd has lived in the UK and been host of the early morning TV show in New Zealand he now reports for stuff. He's a dyed in the wool Titaniac. stuff.co.nz @lloydburr For more behind-th...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Author & Oceanliner Historian Steven Ujifusa 08.07.2024 39min

  Steven Ujifusa has a passion for oceanliners. The companies who build and ran them and the passengers who sailed on them - many immigrants coming to America to start a new life. I n his book The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War Steven explores the lives of the Jewish immigrants who fled Europe before war broke out. The Wall Street Journal calls it "Absorbing . . . a David-and-Goliath tale of the industrial age." In his b...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Food Historian ~ Max Miller 24.06.2024 37min

  Max Miller has a hugely popular YouTube channel, TASTING HISTORY, that explores the history of food and the way we have prepared and eaten food over the centuries. He caught the attention of Titanic Talk hosts Nelson and Alexandra because he's done a whole series on the food and menus on on Titanic - and has more episodes to come. We hear how he got started making food and researching food history and culture after watching the Great British Baking Show and being inspired by the backst...
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  TITANIC TALK | Titanic Actor Mark Capri in James Cameron's Titanic 10.06.2024 29min

  Nelson and Alexandra sat down with distinguised stage and screen actor Mark Capri aka Steward #4 in James Cameron's Titanic. He tells of the number of takes it took for Kate Winslet aka Rose to punch him in the face and give him a bloody nose. He reads an excerpt from his diary from twenty five years ago which is also featured in Alexandra's documentary feature Ship of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries. A real insight into the actor's life. Sign up for updates on when and where you can watch Sh...