IT’S the heartbreaking story of a Liverpool- based liner which has been told many times before.
Yet the true scale of the terrible tragedy which befell the Lusitania still doesn’t seem to have been fully appreciated.
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This might all change tomorrow night.
For millions of viewers are expected to watch BBC1’s 90-minute drama Lusitania: Murder On The Atlantic, narrated by and starring John Hannah, who plays a survivor, Professor Holborn, and also featuring Kenneth Cranham, who takes the role of the ship’s Liverpool-born captain, William Turner.
The passenger ship was crossing the Atlantic on May 7, 1915, with 1,959 people on baord.
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