BBC’s minute-by-minute, verbatim passenger account performed by actors makes for welcome viewing at this turgid time of year

‘Titanic Sinks Tonight’. Photo: BBC/Stellify Media
“I fell into a mass of people. Everything I touched seemed to be women’s hair…”
Titanic Sinks Tonight (BBC2, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 30 and 31, 9pm) is hardly Christmas viewing, and exactly why I’m reviewing it during this festive blur.