9. The Long Hours Before Dawn

Titanic: Ship of Dreams

NOISER

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 774 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Titanic’s chief baker pulls off a miraculous drunken escape. Fierce rows break out as to whether to go back and search for survivors. Jimmy McGann balances on top of an upturned lifeboat, while a British baronet offers money to the crew in another. And as the cries of the dying subside, the lucky ones wait desperately for sunrise… A Noiser podcast production. Narrated by Paul McGann. Featuring Josyann Abisaab, Stephanie Barczewski, Jerome Chertkoff, Julian Fellowes, Tim Maltin, Stephen McGann, Susie Millar, Claes-Göran Wetterholm. Special thanks to Southampton Archives, Culture and Tourism for the use of the Eva Hart archive. Visit SeaCity Museum for an interactive experience of the Titanic story (seacitymuseum.co.uk) Written by Duncan Barrett | Produced by Miriam Baines and Duncan Barrett | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design & audio editing by Miri Latham | Assembly editing by Dorry Macaulay and Anisha Deva | Compositions by Oliver Baines and Dorry Macaulay | Mix & mastering: Cody Reynolds-Shaw | Recording engineer: Joseph McGann | Nautical consultant: Aaron Todd. Get every episode of Titanic: Ship of Dreams two weeks early and ad-free by joining Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The five pound meal deal from McDonald's.
0:02.0	Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken, medium fries, four McNuggets and a medium soft drink for guess what?
0:08.0	That's right, five pounds!
0:10.0	It's not called the five pound meal deal for nothing.
0:14.0	From 11 AM, not available on delivery.
0:17.0	Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply.
0:18.0	Participating restaurants, subjects availability.
0:20.0	It's 219 a.m. Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply. Participating restaurants, subjects, availability.
0:27.4	It's 2.19 a.m. on April the 15th, 1912.
0:32.6	RMS Titanic is sliding under the surface of the water.
0:42.3	At the stern of the ship, a large number of the fifteen hundred odd men, women and children still on board, have gathered, buying themselves a few more precious moments.
0:48.3	Hardly any of them will survive the sinking of the biggest ship in the world.
0:59.0	But one man surprisingly will. His name is Charles Jockin, and he is Titanic's Chief Baker,
1:04.0	a diminutive man just five and a half feet tall from Birkenhead,
1:09.0	who first went to sea at the age of 11. Now in his mid-30s,
1:14.3	Jokkin is a seasoned sailor, with the liver of the saltiest sea dog. Half an hour earlier
1:21.5	when he realized he wasn't going to find a place on any of the remaining lifeboats. Jokkin
1:26.8	did what came most naturally to him.
1:29.7	He went back down to his quarters to get a drink.
1:33.3	The exact tipple he knocks back in Titanic's final minutes will be debated over the years.
1:40.4	Jokkin will claim it was whiskey.
1:42.8	Others will suggest it may have been his own home-brewed schnapps.
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