1 May 2025

Podcast Critic: 'DNA Trail: The Promise' & 'Titanic - Ship of Dreams'

From Afternoons, 2:23 pm on 1 May 2025

Today Alan Doak looks at DNA Trail: The Promise, a podcast about Laura Ancell who is searching for the real family of her late father. He also discusses Titanic - Ship of Dreams where host Paul McGann explores what is known and what is not known about the build, launch and ultimate demise of the Titanic.

This handout image taken during the historical 1986 dive, courtesy of WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and released February 15, 2023 shows the Titanic bow. In July 1986, nine months after the discovery, a team from WHOI returned to the wreck site, this time using three-person research submersible Alvin and the newly developed remotely operated vehicle Jason Jr. The trip marked the first time that humans laid eyes on the vessel since its ill-fated voyage in 1912.

The bow of the Titanic, seen in an image taken during a historical 1986 dive. Photo: AFP / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution / Handout