Europe's worst shipwreck: What happened to the MS Estonia?
The MS Estonia sank into the icy Baltic Sea in 1994, descending alongside the evidence of what happened that fateful night where 852 people died. Nearly twenty-six years later the shipwreck still sits on a shallow sea bed and new evidence has raised questions about what caused it to go down.
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Guests:
- Paul Barney - A Briton who was on board the MS Estonia when it capsized and sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994.
- Henrik Evertsson - Documentary filmmaker and journalist prosecuted for investigating the sinking of the MS Estonia.
- Matthew Campbell - Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times, was working in Moscow when the MS Estonia sank.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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