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TITANIC TALK
Hosted by Nelson Aspen & Alexandra Boyd · EN
Award winning journalist Nelson Aspen and actress-turned-filmmaker Alexandra Boyd talk all things related to the ship of dreams with actors from James Cameron's Titanic, Titanic superfans (Titaniacs) and Titanic historians and authors.
This companion piece to Alexandra's documentary Ship of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries is your first class ticket to everything aboard the ship of dreams. The film is available to rent or own on Amazon and other digital platforms in the US and UK/Ireland. DVD is available in the US.
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TITANIC TALK | Nelson & Alexandra Season Three Roundup
Dec 1500:51:17Tap to summarizeNelson 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 Jack/Titanic and before she met Brock in an episode called 'Rose's Heart Will Go On'The recovery of bodies with death care expert, Clinton BonelliDavid Scott-Beddard of the British Titanic Society Kelly Skwarkan on the failed of leadership of the captain of the CalifornianDan E Parkes author. The Captain, The Daughter & the SpyAlex 0wens-Sarno - Cora in TitanicWe took time to remember one of our Titanic family who passed away on Thanksgiving Day. Ellen Mower O'Brien is the frozen Mother with Baby in James Cameron's film. Here's a link to her Go Fund MeFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | Titanic Actress Alex Owens-Sarno
Dec 100:38:42Tap to summarizeFor 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 actress, writer and comedienne. Follow her work on Instagram @alex_sarnoFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | Author of TITANIC LEGACY: The Captain, The Daughter & The Spy, Dan E Parkes
Oct 600:42:53Tap to summarizeNelson 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's book takes the shape of an edge-of-your-seat thriller. This book is a must-read for all Titanic enthusiasts looking for new and as yet uncovered human stories of the individuals effected by the Titanic tragedy.BUY Dan's Book TITANIC LEGACY: The Captain, The Daughter and The SpyFOLLOW @parkesproductionsLEARN more about Dan on his WEBSITEFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | Leadership Differences in Titanic's Rescue with Kelly Skwarcan
Aug 2500:33:13Tap to summarizeIn 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 miles away and during the official enquiry he tried to cover up his failings. In an opposite demonstration of leadership, Captain Rostrun of the Californian turned his ship around and steered through a field of icebergs to help pick up survivors. Hear about how Kelly uses the stories of the two captains' different responses to train military cadets in the art of leadership combining her research and passion for the Titanic with the HEXACO personality test. LINKS ~Kelly's Book IRON & ICE: The Full Tale of the Titanic on AmazonKelly's website ~ kellyskwarcan.comInstagram ~ @kellyskwarcanListen to Kelly's Narativ Leadership Story Talks podcast episode HEREFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | British Titanic Society Chairman David Scott-Beddard
Aug 1100:39:08Tap to summarizeFind 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 Titanic passengers from Waterloo to Southampton.LINKS for this episode ~Nomadic is dry docked at Titanic BelfastTitanicBelfast.com/explore/ss-NomadicDavid's collection of memorabilia White Star MemoriesExhibition Hub, the immersive Titanic exhibition: www.exhibitionhub.comSculpter Allen St Geroge: alanstgeorge.comTitanic Boat Train Heritage: titanicboattrainheretagetrust.org For more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | How Were Titanic's Bodies Recovered with Clinton Bonelli - Death Care Specialist
Jul 2100:42:32Tap to summarizeThis 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 pick up survivors in the water, many passengers would have gone down with the ship and many didn't survive longer than fifteen minutes in the freezing water of the Atlantic.Clinton's background in funeral arrangement and embalming and his research on who was buried at sea, who was laid to rest in Halifax in the cemetery and whose bodies were returned to their families outlines, even in death, the unbalanced distinction of the classes.Follow Clinton on Instagram @clintonb1979 and @pedantictitanicFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | Rose's Heart Will Go On...
Jul 700:45:01Tap to summarizeSo 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 Titanic Scene by Scene podcast and uber, super fan Zach Douglas.Be sure to write to us on Instagram with your thoughts on Rose's life after Jack and also do tell us who is your Titanic crush?LINKS@Titanic_Talk_podcastZach @zachdouglasdoggroomingBrittany @ibrittanybutlerTitanic Scene by Scene @titanicbyscenePhaze Y2K @y2kphazeWATCH Alexandra's short film Boxer on the WildernessLearn more about Titanic Survivor Celiney Alexander Yasbeck. HEREFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | Titanic Actress ~ Fannie Brett ~ Madame Aubert
May 26, 202500:35:41Tap to summarizeNelson 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, however, she'd not long been in America when she was cast in Titanic as Benjamin Guggenheim's mistress Madame Aubert. She describes in detail her audition process with Mali Fin on what was her first American film. If you are just starting out, you will learn a lot about the business of acting and see that the world of Titanic really was populated by people from all over the world. Titanic was a floating city of the rich and the poor and a myriad of nations were represented. Madame Aubert's part in the tragedy is particularly interesting...FYI - for you die-hard Titanic fans the etiquette coach/choreographer was Lynne Hockney and the onset photographer we were talking about is Merie WallaceFannie's dubbing and voice actor training company is 7HM (Seven Holdings Media)For more information on her one-on-one training email her at fannie@7holdingsmedia.comFannie's Website Instagram @fannie_brettFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | Titanic Weekend Podcast Roundtable with Titanic Legacy & Witness Titanic
Apr 25, 202500:52:25Tap to summarizeNelson 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 fascinating collection of origin stories, anecdotes and advice on how to deal with 'those critics' as these three podcasters cross-pollinate and agree that they are all connected by Titanic.LISTEN to Alexandra on Titanic LegacyLISTEN to Nelson on Titanic LegacyLISTEN to Witness TitanicFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
Transcribe →TITANIC TALK | Author & Titanic Documentarian Steven Schwankert Talks About His New Book - THE SIX
Mar 24, 202500:37:42Tap to summarizeNelson 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 more deeply into the history of the Chinese sailors with more details that couldn't fit into a 100 minute feature film.LISTEN and you will learn a lot about this little known piece of Titanic survivor history.Learn about the documentary HEREBuy Steven's book HEREFor more behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Titanic & Alexandra's upcoming book go to her Substack page - The Titanic Diaries SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc Facebook TikTok @titanic_talk_podcastWATCH US on YouTube BUY Merchandise HERE Nelson ~ nelsonaspen.com@nelsonaspen Kindred Spirits: A Titanic TaleAlexandra - alexandraboyd.co.uk Instagram...
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