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- Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing the lost Franklin expedition, where the ships Erebus and Terror set out in 1845 to find the Arctic North West passage, the ships would never return leading to a 150+ year mystery to figure out what happened.
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Sources:
Erebus: the story of a ship - Michael Palin
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/what-happened-to-erebus-terror-crew-true-story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition
The Disturbing Disappearance of the Franklin Expedition
Franklin's Lost Voyage Documentary (2005) - Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing the Radium girls - who were women who worked in radium factories around the 1920s, they suffered horrible effects of radiation poisoning and fought for years to have their suffering recognised as caused by their working conditions. We will cover their afflictions and the court cases which followed and helped radically reform workplace laws.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Radium Girls movie
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-radium-girls/
https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls - Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing the 1967 mountaineering disaster on Denali - at the time called Mount Mckinley - where 7 climbers perished on the top slopes due to one of the worst blizzards in 100 years. It was one of the deadliest mountaineering disasters in history. This is part 2 of 2.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/life-and-death-americas-highest-peak/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eLT6Rkpdg - Scary Interesting
https://explorersweb.com/mckinley-1967-triumph-and-tragedy-part-ii/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Mount_McKinley_disaster
Forever on the mountain: the truth behind one of mountaineerings most controversial and mysterious disasters - James M Tabor
Denalis Howl: The deadliest climbing disaster on americas wildest peak - Andy Hall - Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing the 1967 mountaineering disaster on Denali - at the time called Mount Mckinley - where 7 climbers perished on the top slopes due to one of the worst blizzards in 100 years. It was one of the deadliest mountaineering disasters in history. This is part 1 of 2.
Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at whenitgoeswrongpod@gmail.com.
You can buy me a coffee at: https://ko-fi.com/whenitgoeswrongpod
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/life-and-death-americas-highest-peak/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eLT6Rkpdg - Scary Interesting
https://explorersweb.com/mckinley-1967-triumph-and-tragedy-part-ii/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Mount_McKinley_disaster
Forever on the mountain: the truth behind one of mountaineerings most controversial and mysterious disasters - James M Tabor
Denalis Howl: The deadliest climbing disaster on americas wildest peak - Andy Hall - Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing the crimes of Harold Shipman, a Hyde GP who over 30 years killed around 250 victims, mostly elderly women, by injecting them with diamorphine. We will cover his history, crimes and what this meant for the medical field.
Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at whenitgoeswrongpod@gmail.com.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shipman_Inquiry
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(04)17635-6/fulltext
https://csi.pressbooks.pub/uncserkill/chapter/chapter-16-harold-shipman-dr-death/
Harold Shipman - Prescription for Murder - Jean Ritchie, Brian Whittle
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Harold Shipman: Dr Death - I could murder a podcast
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When It Goes Wrong explores accidents, disasters and when everything falls apart. Join your host Jasmin to discuss what went wrong from areas like mountaineering disasters, to shipwrecks to true crime. Things go wrong all the time - lets chat about it!
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