The Missing Titanic Sub
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Rescue efforts are ongoing for the missing Titanic sub.
In this live Newscast, Adam is joined by three guests to help understand why a tourist submersible carrying five people went missing while diving to the wreck of the Titanic.
Simon Platts directed a BBC documentary episode about the Titanic sub last year. David Russell was a Royal Navy submariner in charge of the British response to the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000. And Heather Gillis from CBC News joins us close to the wreck site of the Titanic in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Tim Walklate with Fiona Leach, George Dabby and Alex Collins. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's a story that has captured the attention of the entire world in quite an |
| 0:10.8 | extraordinary way. It is the search for a missing submersible which was going to the bottom |
| 0:16.9 | of the North Atlantic Ocean carrying five people so they could explore the remains of |
| 0:22.7 | the Titanic, which sank in 1912. There are so many questions about this, so many things |
| 0:29.8 | to talk about, so many details to learn, we're going to spend the whole of this episode |
| 0:33.9 | focused on that story. |
| 0:35.4 | Newscast. |
| 0:36.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:37.4 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister, who herself got beaten by a lettuce. |
| 0:42.4 | At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
| 0:44.4 | Rean economy, blah blah blah. It's the Guardian reading, tofu eating, |
| 0:49.7 | woparati. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm actually very right-wing. You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle. |
| 0:54.0 | Today I feel gay. |
| 0:55.8 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm here because I like carrying megan and I don't care what anybody says about me. |
| 1:02.8 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio and we're going to spend the next half an hour talking |
| 1:06.9 | about this story to help us work out what might be going on. We've got some really interesting |
| 1:12.8 | very well-informed guests here in the studio with me is Simon Platt, who actually filmed |
| 1:18.9 | on the submersible for a BBC documentary, not that long ago. Hi, Simon, hello. |
| 1:23.6 | Glad you got your notepad with all your notes and reflections because we'll be mining |
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