FEATURING PHOTOJOURNALIST MARISSA ROTH

This week’s show follows a journey that stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic, five days, 2,845 miles by road, from LA, through Vegas, Denver, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, finally reaching New York City, and then a week at sea aboard the Queen Mary 2. I travelled with the photojournalist Marissa Roth, helping her bring home six precious heavy cases packed with nearly half a century of negatives; work that spans everything from Women and War, her lifetime project on the human cost of conflict, to assignments that shaped her long career behind the camera.

Together we crossed America before sailing for Southampton with that extraordinary cargo. There were wrong turns, long drives and high North Atlantic waves, but more than anything, a reminder that photographs hold stories worth carrying safely home.

Also on the show, special guest John Plews, a Titanic expert and fellow passenger shares facts about a ship made famous by tragedy.

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MORE ABOUT names, words, THE MUSIC and places FROM TODAY’S SHOW

The Crossing, by Marissa Roth. The project that inspired our journey across America.

Mark Power’s Shipping Forecast turns Britain’s weather bulletin into visual poetry, a photographic odyssey along the coastlines named in that haunting radio ritual.

Julia Margaret Cameron was the Victorian photographer, who made portraits feel human, all soft focus, real emotion, and the sense that her camera saw ‘straight through to the soul’.

Frank Hurley was an Australian photographer and adventurer best known for his remarkable images of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition and the battlefields of the First World War.

Robert Capa was a Hungarian-born photojournalist who made his name covering conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to D-Day, co-founded Magnum Photos, and helped define what it means to be right there in the middle of the story.

John Plews is a Titanic expert and writer behind Ovation’s stage production Titanic: Iceberg Right Ahead.

Sebastião Salgado was a Brazilian photographer known for his powerful black-and-white images of people and places in global transition, plus for the environmental work and areas he built with his wife, Lélia.

The Canon FTb mentioned by Marissa is a workhorse SLR camera with a sturdy metal body, manual focus, manual exposure, shutter speeds ranging from 1 second to 1/1000 th of a second. Was it the best camera ever?

The Six. When the RMS Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely 700 people escaped with their lives. Among them were six Chinese men. Arriving in New York with the other survivors, the six were met not with compassion, but suspicion and slander. Less than 24 hours later, they were expelled from the country and vanished.

Encyclopedia Titanica tells the stories of the real people who designed, built and sailed on RMS Titanic.

Kelvin Brown’s flickr Photowalk inspired group - join by invite by clicking on to THIS LINK.

MUSIC LINKS: Music on the show is sourced primarily from Artlist and also features in Michael Brennan’s Spotify playlist GoFoto. For Apple Music users, follow this playlist.