Great Disasters

A podcast by Kari Fay

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64 Episodes

  1. Haiti Earthquake 2010

    Published: 15/03/2019

  2. The Flying Scotsman, 1947

    Published: 01/03/2019

  3. Morecambe Bay Cocklepicking Disaster

    Published: 15/02/2019

  4. The de Havilland Comet

    Published: 01/02/2019

  5. Piper Alpha

    Published: 18/01/2019

  6. 1955 Le Mans Crash

    Published: 13/07/2018

  7. Apollo 1

    Published: 01/07/2018

  8. Seveso Chemical Disaster

    Published: 15/06/2018

  9. North Sea Floods 1953

    Published: 01/06/2018

  10. The Goiânia Incident

    Published: 18/05/2018

  11. The Station Nightclub Fire

    Published: 04/05/2018

  12. Monongah

    Published: 20/04/2018

  13. Mount Tambora

    Published: 06/04/2018

  14. Exercise Tiger

    Published: 23/03/2018

  15. Everest Avalanche and Nepal Earthquake

    Published: 09/03/2018

  16. Hillsborough

    Published: 23/02/2018

  17. San Francisco Earthquake 1906

    Published: 09/02/2018

  18. The Spanish Flu

    Published: 12/01/2018

  19. Air France 358

    Published: 29/12/2017

  20. The London Smog

    Published: 15/12/2017

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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.