Episode 126: Chernobyl - Part Four
The break is over and it's back to Chernobyl, where everything is covered with radioactive dust and the remains of reactor #4 are a continuing danger to everyone - both in the immediate vicinity, and ...
13 Dec 20191h 17min
Episode 125: Chernobyl - Part Three
In this part of our Chernobyl series, we reach the moment of truth - the day when all of Chernobyl's underlying problems rose to the surface and led to the worst nuclear power disaster in history.
12 Nov 20191h 18min
Episode 124: Chernobyl - Part Two
In this episode, we see Chernobyl's beginnings, and just where cracks begin to form underneath the surface.
6 Nov 201945min
Episode 123: Chernobyl - Part One
Before we get into the story of Chernobyl, we explore a few previous nuclear disasters, learn how radiation and nuclear accidents are measured, and find out just how sick ionizing radiation will make ...
31 Okt 20191h 2min
Episode 122: The Stardust fire
It's St. Valentine's Day weekend, and love is in the air. Young people throughout northern Dublin flocked to the Stardust in 1981, drawn by the promise of a disco dancing competition to start at one i...
27 Sep 20191h 10min
Episode 121: British European Airways Flight 609
They were some of the best and the brightest in British football. In the mid-to-late 1950s, the Busby Babes were young talented players signed on to Manchester United F.C. by manager Matt Busby to mol...
19 Sep 20191h 12min
Episode 120: The 1900 Hoboken Docks fire
It was a normal working Saturday at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey - until it wasn't. After the cotton bales on pier three caught fire so very close to barrels of oil and turpentine, every ship dock...
30 Aug 201950min
Episode 119: The Balvano train disaster
With World War II raging on throughout Europe, those civilians who were merely trying to survive in their day-to-day lives in southern Italy were on the brink of starvation. They needed food, and to f...
1 Aug 201941min
