Therefore, we get the musings of Jim Thompson, who was a Caulker, and John Parkinson, the son of a Titanic shipbuilder (job unspecified). Some less useful (but still interesting) recordings are included of those who built the ship and/or their families. The “voices” themselves are too numerous to list fully in this review, but include Charles Lightoller (the earliest of all the recordings, made in 1936), Edith Russell, Joseph Boxhall and Eva Hart. The track listing details the people recorded, the programme from which the soundtracks were taken and the dates of the recordings.
The CD retails in the UK (via Amazon) at £8.48 for the audio CD version and £6.89 for the audio download version (which seems to me extremely good value for money compared to most audio books). Piggott-Smith is the perfect person to narrate the story, with a voice that is clear, beautifully paced and authoritative. CD 2 continues the story, up to and including the American and British enquiries. CD 1 begins with the building of the ship and ends with the Carpathia steaming to the rescue. The narrator is the superb Tim Pigott-Smith, who is reading from a script written by Mark Jones. This audio book is comprised of two CDs that run for a total of 2 hours 25 minutes. Lightoller, for example, continues to use the whitewash brush to hide the true causes and events of the disaster in his reminisces.
Therefore, from a research perspective, these recordings do not have the same value as, say, the transcripts from the two enquiries that took place in the weeks after the sinking. The recordings of people such as Charles Lightoller, Frank Prentice, Winifred Burke, Joseph Boxhall, et al were made many years after the events they are describing. What happened to the Titanic and why is it still famous?.How many passengers and crew were there on the Titanic?.
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