Bringing Titanic Back to Life: Inside the 2025 Real-Time Sinking, Historians' Edition

Season 2 of The Steam & Splendor Network Podcast launches with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Titanic Sinks in Real Time: 2025 Historians’ Edition. Hosts Tad Fitch and J. Kent Layton take listeners inside the making of this ambitious new recreation, revealing how historical research, technology, and factual storytelling came together to bring Titanic’s final hours to life like never before.

From a meticulously crafted, fully immersive audio experience to the historical details that shaped every moment of the sinking, this episode explores what makes this edition unique. Tad and Kent also discuss the many ways in which real-time recreations go beyond audience engagement—serving as powerful research tools that allow historians to test theories, uncover new insights, and better understand survivor accounts, and the disaster itself.

Packed with fascinating examples, historical detail, and expert insight, this episode offers a rare look at how the past is reconstructed—and re-examined—through modern tools. Don’t miss this compelling deep dive into the recreation of one of history’s most studied maritime tragedies.

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