LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Happy Birthday Jack

Genre

Feature

TX Date

7 Sep 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:24:25

Description

Special Saturday documentary Happy Birthday Jack, on John George (Jack) Phillips, Chief Wireless Operator on the SS Titanic, who celebrated his 25th birthday on board and stayed at his post sending SOS distress signals until the ship foundered on 15 April 1912. Includes memories of Titanic survivors Eva Hart and Frank Prentice, senior officer Charles Herbert Lightoller and wireless operator on the Empress of Ireland, Ronald Ferguson. Also newspaper accounts from the New York Times and Daily Mirror, and diary? extracts from Phillips’s friend Walter Gray(?). With musical from a song about Phillips and hymn Eternal Father Strong to Save. Additional voices by John Byles(?), Nick Jackson and David Lucas. Music written and sung by Alan Harlow, Maggie St George, Dave Young and St James Church Choir, Weybridge. Narrator Jim Wainwright. Producer Patrick Campbell.

Contributors

Patrick Campbell; Ronald Ferguson; Eva Hart; Frank Prentice; Charles Herbert Lightoller; Walter Gray(?); John Byles(?); Nick Jackson; David Lucas; Alan Harlow; Dave Young; Jim Wainwright; St James Church choir; Maggie St George

Keywords

Shipwrecks; Newspapers; Reminiscence; Seaborne disasters; Ships; Disasters (events); Titanic disaster (1912); Wireless telegraphy; Jack Phillips; Eva Hart; Frank Prentice; Charles Herbert Lightoller; Charles Gray(?); Ronald Ferguson; John George Phillips

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