January 19, 2021

9: Episode 9...or an Aggravated Arson?

50 minutes

In last week's episode, we heard the tragic story of Martin Fletcher and what happened to 3 generations of his family on that fateful day in May 1985 at Bradford City Football Stadium. Martin often wondered why he survived when his family didn't, but a revelation from his mother some 9 years after the disaster, sent him on a 15-year-long hunt to find answers...and what he found was so explosive that he now knew why he'd been chosen to survive...so that he could share the truth.

Sound Effects:

zapsplat.com

SuZe

Voices Provided by:

Narrator: SuZe

Music by:

Possession by Purple Planet

All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bradford City Anthem (The Good Citizens - Take Me Home) Bradford City Hymn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDK9pGii1PI

The Doors - Light My Fire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq8k-ZbsXDI

All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.

Sources:

56: The Story of the Bradford Fire by Martin Fletcher

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/apr/18/bradford-fire-horrors-lies-silence-martin-fletcher-family

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/the-story-of-the-bradford-fire-book-extract

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-stafford-heginbotham-martin-fletcher

https://100objectsbradford.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/84-in-memory-of-the-56-the-popplewell-inquiry-papers/

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/anger-judge-sir-oliver-popplewell-3363064

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/27/bradford-fire-inquiry-oliver-popplewell-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/16/bradford-fire-andy-burnham-calls-for-fresh-investigation

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/dec/06/bradford-fire-forgotten-disaster-anniversary

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/16/bradford-fire-fifty-six-martin-fletcher-second-extract

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/06/west-yorkshire-police-ipcc-1985-bradford-city-fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_City_stadium_fire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-38759001

https://www.11v11.com/teams/bradford-city/tab/matches/season/1985/

https://vgtips.co.uk/remembering-bradford-city-fire-with-survivor-martin-fletcher/

https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/tag/stafford-heginbotham/

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