This Week: Saving Mr Banks, Krakatoa East of Java, From Hell

Based on a True Story

BOATS THIS WEEK (AUG 26-SEPT 1, 2024) — Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of Disney's Mary Poppins premiered, and that event is shown in the 2013 movie called Saving Mr. Banks about the making of Mary Poppins. If that's too confusing, give the episode a listen to unravel it all. From there, we'll travel to the west of Java to the movie incorrectly titled Krakatoa, East of Java. It got the geography wrong in the title, but we'll find out how well it shows the eruption of Krakatoa from August 28th, 1883. Then we'll go to London in 1888 because this Saturday is the anniversary of the first Jack the Ripper victim being discovered; an event from the movie From Hell.

Until next time, here's where you can continue the story.

Events from This Week in History

• Tuesday: Saving Mr. Banks
• Wednesday: Krakatoa, East of Java
• Thursday: From Hell | BOATS #93 | Jack the Ripper newspaper reports

Birthdays from This Week in History

• Tuesday: President Lyndon B. Johnson in LBJ
• Friday: Mary Shelley in Mary Shelley
• Saturday: Caligula in The Robe

Historical Movies Releasing This Week

• Friday: 1992

Mentioned in this episode

• Krakatoa and Edvard Munch's The Scream
• Original newspaper reports of each Jack the Ripper victim

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