16 April '12

“A lovely, simple idea – letters and journals of passengers and crew, some who survived, others who didn’t, read by their descendants and by actors. So poignant.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“Words of the Titanic, which drew on the eyewitness testimony of those who actually survived. And curiously it turned out to be one of the best of the bunch. No CGI reconstructions, no wild hypotheses about the sinking, no historical revisionism, just the event itself in snagging detail.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“The people responsible for this intriguing collection of written accounts, brought to life by actors and descendants of Titanic passengers, had something of a tendency to polish things up with hindsight.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“I think Dennis [Hopper], who embraced popular culture rather than turning his nose up at it, might have appreciated The Cube. He might have appreciated the slo-mo bits, and the replays, the messing about with time. He certainly would have appreciated Jenny from Liverpool.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“It’s rather like Hollyoaks with scalpels.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“Much of its premise is false. Image doesn’t matter, they say: but watch the coaches perspire with relief as they find that the lovely voice they have been listening to is matched by a lovely face, with just the right levels of quirk and blusher.”
Alex Hardy, The Times

“BGT is like those non-competitive school sports days: all kinds of people can make it regardless of their talent levels.”
Alex Hardy, The Times

“This week, a few bedraggled survivors will have watched as the stern finally disappeared beneath the waves and the drama concluded with the most otiose title card I think I’ve ever seen. “One hundred years later,” it read, “Titanic has not been forgotten.””
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent