Alan Hall After forty years as arguably the most elegant ship at sea, the QE2 has docked for her last time. The world's best known ocean liner will be converted into a floating hotel moored in Dubai. The ship's eventful life - from construction on the Clyde in the swinging Sixties, through refitting as a cruise ship that epitomised a golden age of luxury travel, to service in the Falklands and an almost fatal Atlantic storm - is revealed through the words of those closest to her and the sounds of the vessel herself.
Repeated Wednesday 20 January 2010 at 11am.