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Who Did What Now

144. The Marchioness Disaster

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

1989 in London, England, 130 partygoers boarded a small pleasure boat - The Marchioness - for a birthday bash cruise down the Thames river. Less than an hour later, over a third of these people would lose their lives after the boat was struck by a large dredger. For the survivors and the victims families, the pain had only begun.


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0:00.0

I'm always up before the birds and the kids.

0:12.5

Good to think Costa Express is always up too.

0:16.6

Early starts are easier with great coffee.

0:19.4

And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.

0:24.1

Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.

0:26.8

Oh, you legend.

0:29.1

Now that's a proper coffee.

0:30.9

Should kick in Justin Sanfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.

0:34.7

Hmm.

0:35.9

Costa Express.

0:37.4

Quality coffee every time.

0:41.9

Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Dead What Now, the History Podcast, that's

0:47.0

not your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Highlet and

0:52.2

Reader of Books. So I managed to annoy so many millennials this weekend

0:59.0

because I made a video, I made a wee video about how basically there comes a point as a millennial

1:07.0

that you have to realise that you're either going to start looking your age or you're going to start looking wield. So like, I think the phrase I used was a

1:15.9

rejected discount Barbie doll that filled the quality control requirements for the dollar store.

1:23.1

So like all of the extra like fillers and implants and all the stuff you do to your face to make yourself

1:29.7

like younger or prettier or whatever um or you're going to look um your age and some people were

1:38.3

super mad about it they got really really precious about this and, okay. Like, one of the things they brought up

1:47.5

was they looked good. And I don't know why. Because I never one said that you don't look good

1:56.9

if you look your age. Like if you don't think that people your age look, I feel

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