Mayday Podcast
1) The Orlando Nightclub shooting
30-year-old Eddie Justice hears bangs over the music. Like many others at Pulse Nightclub, he and his friends don’t understand where the sound is coming from. Maybe it's just part of the music. But th...Show More
2) The Holodomor
All the animals have gone. There are no birds singing in the trees, no cats playing in the streets. When Vasyl returns home after a failed hunting trip, the family dog is nowhere to be seen. And there...Show More
3) The Sichuan School Disaster
Principal Ye Zhiping has to make it back. A massive earthquake has just hit his province Sichuan, and all he can think about is whether his students and teachers are okay. When he finally gets to the ...Show More
4) The AMIA Bombing
Anita doesn’t know how much time has passed. But she knows she has to get out. The building is collapsing around her, and people are stumbling over each other trying to find an escape. Just moments ea...Show More
5) The Sinking of MV Sewol
The water is rising. What just seconds ago was the wall, is now a slippery floor submerged under ice cold ocean. Ae-Jin knows that she has to reach the door in the ceiling. That there is no other way ...Show More
6) The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake
Oscar Flores can feel the floor starting to shake. Soon, the ceiling is falling down in large chunks, and the walls are folding like paper. He doesn't know that what he's experiencing is one of the wo...Show More
7) The Alexander Kielland Platform Collapse
In this episode, we will tell you about the Alexander Kielland disaster of 1980, one of the worst oil rig accidents in history. The hosts of this episode are Maya Nalani and Luke Welland. The script...Show More
8) Three Mile Island
In this episode, we tell the story of the worst nuclear accident in the United States. A story about a partial meltdown that threatened the lives of hundreds of people. And about how the plants’ owner...Show More
9) Bloody Sunday
Barney McGuigan hears a man pleading for help. The others try to stop him, but to no avail. Barney goes out to the injured man with a white cloth in his hand. "Don't shoot me," he shouts. What happens...Show More
10) The Amazon Plane Crash
When Juliane wakes up, everything is quiet. The ground beneath her is wet and muddy, and above her, palm leaves shield her from the sun. Juliane has just woken up in the middle of the Amazon rainfores...Show More