Podcasts about ss mendi

Back with more brand new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to artists of national and international renown in our Amplify podcast series. These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Sam Hodges, a theatre director, artistic director and producer with over 15 years’ experience across the not-for-profit and commercial sectors. A few years after graduating from Cambridge University, he founded the HighTide Festival Theatre which grew into one of the country’s leading new writing companies. He was Artistic Director for five years, during which time he produced early work by the leading writers and directors of his generation – including writers Nick Payne, Sam Holcroft, Ella Hickson and Beth Steel, and directors Mike Longhurst, Polly Findlay and Natalie Abrahami. Highlights include Stovepipe - which was co-produced with the National Theatre and named one of The Sunday Times ‘Ten Best Theatre Productions of the Decade’ - and Ditch, which opened the Old Vic Tunnels. In 2009, Sam was named in Esquire Magazine’s 60 Brilliant Brits for shaping British theatre. Between 2012 and 2014, he was invited by Stephen Fry and Sally Greene to become the Creative Producer for the Criterion Theatre in London’s West End. More recently, Sam was Artistic Director of Nuffield Southampton Theatres (NST) where he built on his reputation for commissioning new plays and musicals. Highlights include international award-winning tours of Fantastic Mr Fox the Musical and Billionaire Boy the Musical, London transfers for A Number to the Young Vic and SS Mendi to the Royal Opera House, and world premieres of The Shadow Factory by Howard Brenton and an adaptation of the Coen Brothers film The Hudsucker Proxy. After his first season in charge, NST was named Regional Theatre of the Year and Sam has been named in the Stage 100 power list for the last 4 years. As a director, his productions for NST include The Audience (nominated Best Design & Best Actress, UK Theatre Awards), The Shadow Factory (nominated Best Design, UK Theatre Awards), Dedication, and The Glass Menagerie (nominated Best Director, UK Theatre Awards). He has also written two short films, Player (nominated Best Short: Raindance Film Festival, Miami Short Film Festival) and Double Take (commissioned by BAFTA and Big Dance for Channel 4: Dance on Camera Festival 2013 ) which he also directed.

It's a long one, but you have to hear the incredible stories that must be told. Listen until the end to hear the fascinating tale of the SS Mendi, lost off the south coast of the UK with the terrible loss of over 600 souls and how Martin identifies the wreck and the huge international implication that followed. Martin Woodward MBE is a shipwreck hunter that has personally discovered over 150 uncharted wrecks. Two of the most famous are the British submarine HMS Swordfish that was believed sunk off the coast of France until Martin found the true location, and it was much closer to home. The second, the Mendi, was a troop carrier in World War I that sunk with the loss of over 600 souls on board. The find has enabled surviving family members to achieve some closure.Martin has also been involved in many interesting and unusual projects such as searching for Glenn Miller's aircraft, Goering's Gold, Sir Francis Drake's coffin off Panama, the Lost City of Atlantis and the famous U.S. hijacker D.B Cooper. His great love. however, has always been finding shipwrecks, history, and artifacts from under the oceans.Add to this the fact that Martin also managed to be a member of the Bembridge, Isle of Wight lifeboat crew for 38 years and retired as coxswain. Still diving today, Martin owns and runs commercial dive operation Offshore Marine Services Ltd. He established the Shipwreck Center and Maritime Museum in 1978 and it is a must-visit if you find yourself on the Isle of Wight. Packed to the rafters with artifacts and treasures from Pieces of Eight gold coins from pirate days of old, right through to both world wars and beyond.Link to the museum www.shipwreckcentre.co.ukLink to Martin www.martinwoodward.comLink to The Mendi, the ship history forgot https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/wreck-ss-mendi

They were warriors, not soldiers. Black South Africans recruited as labourers to serve in World War One under the British flag. But, they weren't allowed to carry arms. Not even their assegais, shields or sticks. And instead of dying in battle, they drowned aboard the SS Mendi at sea. Unknown and forgotten. But, these men was remembered in their own country in 1995 when Queen Elizabeth the Second unveiled a plaque in their honour at Soweto's Avalon Cemetry. This is their story and the story of their children. Credits: Angie Kapelianis © SABC 2020. No unauthorised use, copying, adaptation or reproduction permitted without prior written consent of the SABC.

The sinking of the SS Mendi (21 February 1917) became one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the First World War (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans, including 607 black troops serving in the South African Native Labour Contingent, died when the steamship sank in the English Channel on the way to France. The incident happened in the early hours of 21 February 1917, when another ship, the SS Darro rammed the SS Mendi. Selwyn Milborrow wrote this poem after a poetry writing workshop held at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Gallery in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/selwyn-milborrow6/message

Our first show of Brisbane Festival SS Mendi - high distinctions from both of us

The 36th America’s Cup is launched in Cowes. Hear from all 4 skippers hoping to lift the oldest trophy in international sport. Also, the Harmsworth trophy is lifted, the bell from SS Mendi goes home to South Africa and hear about the man who dazzle painted the Royal Navy fleet in the first world war. Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley. email: h2o@bbc.co.uk

This week, a dramatic finish to the Volvo Ocean Race and Sir Ben Ainslie talks about his team’s plans for the next America’s Cup campaign. We’re at Seawork International in Southampton, finding out how the event has grown over the past 21 years, visit Trinity House’s Alert, hear about a new kill cord design and meet a female engineering trainee. Also this week, we have a look around Dorset’s last remaining tall ship, find out what it takes to be a ferryman on the Hamble, hear from the cast of a play marking the SS Mendi tragedy and find out how noise could be affecting marine life Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley. email: h2o@bbc.co.uk

Shawn Sobers is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, curator and academic, and I always found his community-based practice and his range of interests to be completely inspiring. We walked along the River Avon at Lacock on a snowy day, and talked about what he does, and how and why he does it, about teaching photography, his film-making practice, projects about TransAtlantic slavery, the sinking of the SS Mendi and much more. There are links to Shawn's work, and things we talked about, on my website: https://avonstories.com/2018/04/05/podcast-21-shawn-sobers/

This episode sees historians Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, Dan Cruickshank and Emily Gee examine the final locations in the “Loss & Destruction” category, as chosen by Mary Beard from public nominations. Find out about the shipwrecked SS Mendi, the burst dam that devastated Sheffield and the fight for justice after the Hillsborough disaster. A History of England in 100 Places is a Historic England podcast, sponsored by specialist insurer Ecclesiastical ecclesiastical.com

The Northern Cape province has been abuzz with spectacular scene's by the military. This in the build-up to Armed Forces Day on the 21st, in memory of the sinking of the SS Mendi in English Channel on that day in 1917. The Mendi was carrying over 800-service men when it was struck by another South African vessel, the SS Darro. On Thursday community members in Kimberley were treated to spectacular military acrobats and displays by members of the South African National Defence Force. Brigadier Hilton Smith from the airforce unit shares the aims and objectives of the Armed Forces Day...

On the centenary of America’s entry into the First World War, historian Adam IP Smith explores the impact of this momentous decision on both the conflict and the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we speak to archaeologist Graham Scott about the SS Mendi disaster, which saw hundreds of South Africans drown off the coast of England in 1917 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dancing the Death Drill, journalist and author, Fred Khumalo tells the story of the SS Mendi