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In a short series for Â鶹Éç Radio Solent, Bruce Parker taps into the south's rich history.

With the help of experts from across Hampshire Dorset and the Isle of Wight and using Â鶹Éç South’s archive.

In the fourth programme of the series, Bruce and his guests recall the great liners.

Bruce recalls RMS Queen Mary's final voyage across the Atlantic to her final resting-place of Long Beach, California.

There’s archive material spanning the life of QE2 – from her launch in 1967 to her final departure from Southampton in 2008.

The Great White Whale - SS Canberra is remembered and from the archives, Diana, Princess of Wales names the Royal Princess in 1985.

And there were disasters too, RMS Titanic and the 1973 fire that scuppered the Good Hope Castle.

This week’s programme is also available as a special H2O podcast.

For those on the roads across the south of England, there is travel news as it happens.

Â鶹Éç Radio Solent offers a choice of listening on a Sunday evening, with Bruce on 96.1 and 103.8FM, on 999 and 1359 AM and on the Â鶹Éç iPlayer.

The Paul Miller Soul Show is on digital radio and the Â鶹Éç iPlayer.

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