Popular Culture
- The Doctor Who audio play Storm Warning is set aboard R101 during her voyage, with the Eighth Doctor's new companion Charley Pollard being a passenger on the airship; her time with the Doctor leaves him conflicted when he realises that historical records suggest that Charley was meant to die on the R101 if he had not saved her.
- R101 also figured prominently in the book The Airmen Who Would Not Die by John G. Fuller, which tells of a purported psychic vision of the disaster years before by medium Eileen J. Garrett, and a seance with the deceased officers after the disaster.
- R101 is the subject of the rock opera ("songstory") Curly's Airships (2000) by Judge Smith.
- The "Historical Impersonations" sketch on the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus included a depiction of Napoleon impersonating the R101 disaster.
- R101 has been featured in the TV series, Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie on National Geographic Channel.
- R101 is said to have been an influence for one of the major environment/levels of the PS2 game Rule of Rose; the Airship. The main character spends most of her time here, and it is later revealed through newspaper articles found in the Smoking Room and other places in the game that her family died in an airship crash in the 1930s.
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