Disaster Area
A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.

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Episode 164: The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

Episode 164: The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

The deadliest shipwreck of all time took place on a cold January night in 1945, when a recommissioned German cruise ship carrying thousands of East Prussian refugees to safety in the west didn't notic...

28 Apr 20211h 41min

Episode 163: The Colectiv nightclub fire

Episode 163: The Colectiv nightclub fire

On the night of October 30, 2015, the Romanian heavy metal band Goodbye to Gravity held a free concert at Club Colectiv in Bucharest. The events of that night would upend Romanian society and governme...

25 Apr 20211h 19min

Episode 162: The Santiago prison fire

Episode 162: The Santiago prison fire

Chilean prisons were overcrowded, rife with violence, and dilapidated beyond human habitation. It was only a matter of time before the system imploded, and on December 8th, 2010, it finally did - all ...

22 Apr 202157min

Episode 161: The Holodomor

Episode 161: The Holodomor

By 1932, Ukrainians would see their lands taken to be turned into collective farms, their cupboards emptied, their valuables stolen, and anyone who complained shipped off to work camps. But from 1932 ...

14 Apr 20211h 18min

Episode 160: The Great London beer flood

Episode 160: The Great London beer flood

Drinks are on the house! And in the street, and in the basements, and ... well, they're everywhere. On October 17th, 1814, in St. Giles Rookery, London, that was kind of the problem.

7 Apr 202147min

Episode 159: The Swampscott train wreck

Episode 159: The Swampscott train wreck

On a snowy Tuesday in 1956, it's more than likely most of the people on the 8:00 AM train from Danvers, Massachusetts, to Boston would much rather have been home warm and toasty in their bed. Instead,...

31 Mars 202150min

Episode 158: Germanwings Flight 9525

Episode 158: Germanwings Flight 9525

On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 went down over the French Alps. But it wasn't mechanical failure or bad weather which brought down the doomed flight. It was an entirely different kind of tr...

1 Mars 20211h 8min

Episode 157: The Joplin tornado

Episode 157: The Joplin tornado

At 5:34 PM on May 22, 2011, the town of Joplin, Missouri, faced a threat that every town in the Midwest expects to face at some time or another - a tornado. But the monster which grew to life just to ...

28 Feb 20211h 8min

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