I just put together an actual promo for the podcast, so if anyone out there who has a podcast of their own would be willing to put it on their own show I’d be very grateful. Credit for the music in the promo goes to Purple Planet Music.
Series: Chernobyl
I’ll be updating this should I add any more sources as I continue.
Videos:
- Zero Hour: Disaster at Chernobyl
- National Geographic: What Really Happened At Chernobyl
- Discovery Channel: The Battle of Chernobyl
- Discovery Channel: Life in the Dead Zone
- Pripyat evacuation audio with subtitles
- Radioactive Dogs Near Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Are So Grateful for This Man | The Dodo
- Compilation of Rare 1986 Videos of Chernobyl Disaster. (English)
- Nova: Building Chernobyl’s MegaTomb can be found on Netflix.
- What Does Radiation Poisoning Do to Your Body?
- Brief History of: The Windscale fire
- A Brief History of: The SL-1 Reactor Accident
- Three Mile Island Documentary
Articles and books:
- World Health Organization – Chernobyl: the true scale of the accident
- International Atomic Energy Agency: Frequently Asked Chernobyl Questions
- OECD: Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts
- Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster, by Andrew Leatherbarrow
- The Chernobyl Gallery: Timeline
- Life in Pripyat Before, And the Morning After, the Chernobyl Disaster
- World Nuclear Association: Chernobyl Timeline
- Voices From Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexeivich
- Puppies From Radioactive Chernobyl Are Starting New Lives In North America
- ‘I’m no hero’ says Chernobyl diver portrayed in hit TV series
- Midnight in Chernobyl, by Adam Higginbotham
- Clarence Dally — The Man Who Gave Thomas Edison X-Ray Vision
- The real Chernobyl HBO’s hit miniseries is ending, and here’s how its characters compare to their real-life counterparts
Episode 122: The Stardust fire
Videos:
- Stardust fire documentary
- “They Never Came Home” by Christy Moore, complete with lyrics
- Primetime Investigates: Part one, part two
Articles and books:
- Britannica entry with the image showing the different names for the different sections of the British Isles
- The official Stardust fire report generated by the tribunal
- How fire that destroyed the Stardust in 1981 devastated lives for decades
- Plaque to 48 Stardust nightclub fire victims unveiled
- The truth about the Stardust fire
Episode 121: The Munich air disaster (British European Airways Flight 609)
Videos:
- Manchester United : Munich Air Disaster Documentary
- Air Crash Investigation: Munich Air Disaster
- Surviving Disaster: The Munich Air Crash
- Footage from the first Manchester United game following the crash
- British Movietone: The Tragedy of Manchester United (Contemporary newsreel featuring images of the wreckage)
- A 2011 film called “United” starring David Tennant and Dougray Scott tells the story of the Munich air disaster and Manchester United’s struggle to come back from tragedy. It can be viewed for free if you have Amazon Prime.
Articles and books:
- The Munich Air Disaster – The True Story behind the Fatal 1958 Crash: The Night 8 of Manchester United’s ‘Busby Babes’ Died, by Stephen Morrin
- Many Firms Limit Number of Executives on Same Flight
- The Munich disaster 60 years on: ‘They were the best team by far’
- February 6, 1958: Football in mourning after Busby Babes die in Munich air disaster
- Manchester United: remembering the Munich air disaster
Episode 120: The 1900 Hoboken Docks fire
Episode 119: The Balvano train disaster
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Episode 118 : The Carolean death march
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Episode 117: Iran Air Flight 655
Videos:
- The 8th Minute: The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
- Air Crash Investigations: Mistaken Identity (The episode is up on YT, but the quality of the copies I found were not very good at all.)
- What Had Happened Was… – Iran’s Beef with America | The Daily Show
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