Great Disasters

A podcast by Kari Fay

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64 Episodes

  1. Carrollton Bus Crash

    Published: 22/05/2020

  2. The Boston Molasses Flood

    Published: 08/05/2020

  3. Harrow & Wealdstone Rail Crash

    Published: 07/02/2020

  4. The General Slocum

    Published: 24/01/2020

  5. The Victoria Hall Disaster

    Published: 10/01/2020

  6. Fukushima Daiichi

    Published: 20/12/2019

  7. 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

    Published: 29/11/2019

  8. Air New Zealand Flight 901

    Published: 15/11/2019

  9. 1931 China Floods

    Published: 01/11/2019

  10. Vesuvius

    Published: 18/10/2019

  11. Pearl Harbor

    Published: 04/10/2019

  12. Space Shuttle Columbia

    Published: 20/09/2019

  13. The Carrington Event

    Published: 06/09/2019

  14. The Sampoong Department Store Collapse

    Published: 21/06/2019

  15. The Great Hunger, Ireland 1845-50

    Published: 07/06/2019

  16. The Princess Alice Disaster

    Published: 24/05/2019

  17. Chernobyl Part Two

    Published: 10/05/2019

  18. Chernobyl Part One

    Published: 26/04/2019

  19. Galveston Hurricane 1900

    Published: 12/04/2019

  20. The Bradford City Stadium Fire

    Published: 29/03/2019

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Whether natural or man-made, disasters attract a strange mixture of horror and fascination. However, the spectacle of devastation is only ever one part of the story. Take a closer look, and you will find tales of extraordinary human endurance and heroism, stories that veer from the horrific to the oddly humorous, and lessons that can be learned to make our world safer. From the Titanic to the Costa Concordia, the Station nightclub fire to the Pulse nightclub shooting, these extraordinary events – and the people involved – are examined on the Great Disasters podcast, written, researched, recorded and produced by me, Kari Fay. From official reports, first-person accounts, and contemporary media, I delve into the often-appalling details of these events to bring you the full story.