Great Disasters

By Kari FaySociety & Culture Documentary

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Great Disasters episodes

June 15, 2018 GD15 - Seveso Chemical Disaster
A sunny Saturday in Italy was marred by a single cloud - one that came from the local chemical plant.
34 min
June 01, 2018 North Sea Floods 1953
British weather in January doesn't tend to be very pleasant, if we're honest about it. However, sometimes it moves far beyond the realms of "slightly miserable" and into a completely different category - deadly.
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25 min
June 01, 2018 GD14 - North Sea Floods 1953
One Saturday night at the end of January, a storm in the Atlantic wreaked havoc on the coasts of the UK and the continent.
26 min
May 18, 2018 The Goiânia Incident
It started with some abandoned equipment and two scavengers looking for scrap metal. The stuff they found inside looked so pretty, with its magical blue glow, that people passed it around and wore it like carnival glitter. They didn't know that it was deadly.
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30 min
May 18, 2018 GD13 - The Goiânia Incident
They all thought that the blue glowing powdery stuff was pretty. Some painted their bodies with it, like carnival glitter. They didn't know that it was deadly.
31 min
May 04, 2018 The Station Nightclub Fire
On a cold night in February, hundreds of people packed into The Station nightclub to see the band Great White playing. It would be a night none of them would forget - but the band didn't even finish their first song.
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33 min
May 04, 2018 GD12 - The Station Nightclub Fire
It was the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in American history, but what ultimately made the blaze at The Station so lethal?
34 min
April 20, 2018 Monongah
Mining has never been a job to take lightly. With the weight of the world above their heads, and only the lights they took underground with them, the miners of Monongah worked in dirty, cramped spaces for the Fairmont Coal Company. They trusted their bosses when they said the mine was safe.
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32 min
April 20, 2018 GD11 - Monongah
Coal mining was always a dirty job, but somebody had to do it to keep the machines turning. For the men - and boys - of Monongah, it was more than dirty. It was deadly.
35 min
April 06, 2018 Mount Tambora
In this episode, I'm looking at one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in history. It measures a 7 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index - dwarfing more famous events like Vesuvius in 79 AD (a 5), Krakatoa in 1883 (a 6) and Pinatubo in 1991 (another 6). This was an eruption so huge that its effects were felt all around the world.
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23 min

About Great Disasters

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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…