TRR: Episode 76, “The Wreck of the Titan”

Update: 2017-04-10

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This week marks the 105th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In this episode, we take a look at a novel written fourteen years earlier which eerily predicted the disaster.

“Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan” (1898) by Morgan Robertson

“The Titanic Disaster Poem” (1912) by J.H. MacKenzie

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TRT: 24:39

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TRR: Episode 76, “The Wreck of the Titan”

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TRR: Episode 76, “The Wreck of the Titan”

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TRR: Episode 76, “The Wreck of the Titan”