Episode 51: The Shiloh Baptist Church crush
When the woman cried out, what she said was, "Fight!" But what the congregation of Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, heard that Friday night in 1902 was, "Fire!" The panicked crowd rushed for t...
6 Okt 201744min
Episode 50: LANSA Flight 508
Imagine what you could do when you were seventeen. Would you have been able to handle surviving a plane crash in the middle of nowhere? Or would you have been able to get up after the crash and start ...
30 Sep 201744min
Episode 49: The sinking of the MV Le Joola
Fifteen years ago this week, one of the deadliest shipwrecks ever happened just off the coast of western Africa. The MV Le Joola was an integral part of life in Senegal. The ferry regularly traveled a...
28 Sep 20171h 2min
Episode 48: The Happy Land Social Club fire
It started with an argument, the kind of argument you might see at any nightclub or bar on any given night. A man tried to get his ex-girlfriend to give him another chance. She told him no. Angry, he ...
21 Sep 201752min
Episode 47: The 1947 Texas City Disaster
Something was burning down by the Texas City waterfront on April 16, 1947. Everyone in the growing town built on the petrochemical industry could see the plumes of smoke billowing upward from whatever...
16 Sep 20171h 11min
Episode 46: The AIDS Epidemic, Part Two - Misinformation
In part two of our AIDS epidemic series, we look at the misinformation and bigotry which negatively impacted the struggle to identify and fight the virus. This includes the misleading story of "Patien...
4 Sep 201726min
Episode 45: The Galveston Hurricane
This weekend, Hurricane Harvey struck the east coast of Texas and flooded the city of Houston. A hundred and seventeen years ago this week, a similar storm was headed straight for the nearby city of G...
29 Aug 201757min
Episode 44: Air New Zealand Flight 901
Who wouldn't like to go on a sightseeing flight? Have a glass of champagne, mingle with your fellow sightseers, and peer down in wonder at the glorious sights below. But for Air New Zealand Flight 901...
17 Aug 201755min
