In this episode of Shipwreck Tales, Graeme Hill is joined by maritime storyteller John McCrystal to revisit one of the most infamous disasters in French naval history: the wreck of the Medusa. What begins as a tale of poor command, political favouritism and navigational failure becomes a grim account of abandonment, survival and moral collapse on the makeshift raft that inspired one of history’s most powerful maritime paintings. Hill and McCrystal unpack the tragedy with a mix of historical detail, dark humour and clear-eyed reflection on how leadership failure at sea became a national scandal.