LINE UP - Edith Russell
SURVIVORS OF THE TITANIC | Survivors of the tragedy tell their stories of that fateful night
Line Up | Edith Russell
The 90-year-old survivor vividly describes her experiences on the Titanic.
Synopsis
Edith Russell recalls how nobody took the incident seriously at first. They had snowball fights with ice from the iceberg, and Edith carefully locked up her valuables before reluctantly making her way to the lifeboats. She reveals details of her inappropriate attire - a tight sheath dress and velvet pumps - and her toy pig, which she carried to safety. Radio archive of a programme first transmitted on BBC Two.
Did you know?
Edith Russell was a fashion writer at the time, and later went on to report from the trenches during World War I. She lived at Claridges Hotel in London during her final years and died in 1975. Pictured above is the aft first class staircase on the Titanic.
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