Mayday
Qast
No one is prepared for disaster. No one knows how they’ll react in a plane crash, an earthquake or when a lone gunman decides to open fire. On Mayday we tell you about the people w...
Episode list
10
September 1, 2024
23 min
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 ...
moreAugust 18, 2024
26 min
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 t...
moreAugust 4, 2024
26 min
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 ...
moreJuly 21, 2024
24 min
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 esc...
moreJuly 7, 2024
28 min
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 th...
moreJune 23, 2024
22 min
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 experienc...
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