Cruise speaker videos
Carol Baxter is an internationally acclaimed author, a genealogy and writing lecturer, and a cruise ship speaker.
Click on the title slides below to view footage from some "Special Interest" or "Enrichment" talks.
The Feisty Mrs Miller
Bored 1920s Australian housewife, Jessie Miller, joins World War I British aviator, Bill Lancaster, in what they hope will become a record-setting flight from England to Australia. But aloft in their open-cockpit biplane, events soon spiral out of control.
10-minute snippet filmed late 2023
That Magnificent Gal in her Flying Machine
Australia’s first internationally famous aviatrix, Jessie Miller, travels to America in 1928 where she becomes a record-setting celebrity aviator, the world's first female test pilot, and a close friend of Amelia Earhart. Then one day she disappears ...
10-minute snippet filmed late 2023
Be Careful What You Wish For
As the Great Depression grips America, celebrity Australian aviatrix Jessie Miller finds herself the world’s most notorious scarlet woman and a central player in a sensational American murder trial.
10-minute snippet filmed late 2023
MAYDAY!
When retired US Navy pilot Jay Prochnow sets off from San Francisco in 1978 to ferry a Cessna to Sydney, little does he realise that his navigation system is about to fail. Soon, he’s lost over the deadly Pacific Ocean as darkness falls and his fuel tanks empty. Can a nearby Air New Zealand DC-10 save him?
12-minute snippet filmed late 2023
Black Widow
In 1888 – the year Jack the Ripper launched himself onto the world stage – Louisa Collins finds herself in Australia's spotlight. Nicknamed "The Lucretia Borgia of Botany Bay", she is declared by some to be worse than the Ripper. But is she innocent or guilty of the deaths of her husbands?
5-minute snippet filmed 2018
Introducing
Carol Baxter
cruise ship speaker
(filmed 2021)