From the Archives Remembering the Titanic
For this week’s programme we interrupt our chronological journey through the Czech Radio archives, and go back as far as1912. Throughout this summer in Prague it has been hard not to notice posters depicting the Titanic as the great liner sank on the night from April 14-15 1912. They are advertising an exhibition of artifacts from the ship currently on show in the Czech capital. One member of the crew who survived was a young Czech waiter, Rudolf Linhart. He had been working in a London hotel in the years before the First World War and at the beginning of 1912 his dream came true when he was taken on by the White Star Line to work as a waiter for the maiden voyage of the greatest ship on earth. In an interview for Czechoslovak Radio fifty years later, he remembered the traumatic experience of that fateful night in April.
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