Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing Ernest Shackleton and his dramatic expedition to the Antarctic where he would be stranded along with his 27 crew members deep in the Weddell Sea and his attempts to get back to land. This is part 1 of 2.

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Sources:

• Empire - episode 111 - Shackleton: the hero of Antarctica
• BBC - restoring Shackletons cabin
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34856379 - photos
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Sea_party
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personnel_of_the_Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton
• Endurance: Shackletons incredible voyage - Alfred Lansing
• South! The Story of Shackletons Last Expedition 1914-1917 - Ernest Shackleton - https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/south/south_shackleton_preface.php
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60662541 - finding endurance
• https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Ernest_Shackleton_map_time_line.php

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing death by mushroom, we will cover the recent Australia Leongatha Beef Wellington deaths by Erin Patterson, but we will also deep dive into mushrooms themselves - how do they kill, how common is it and how do we make sure not to eat one?!

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Sources:

Podcast - The trial: Australia

Deathcap: the mushroom murders on netflix

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g93rlxwklo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx554n1x0wo

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/fungi-and-lichens/deathcap/

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/03/mushroom-cook-erin-patterson-court-murder-charges-australia-suspected-poisoning-deaths-leongatha-victoria-ntwnfb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leongatha_mushroom_murders

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/things-to-do/foraging/

https://www.nature.scot/plants-animals-and-fungi/fungi

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be heading back to Mount Everest and covering some of the first attempts at climbing it. We will cover Mallory's attempts in 1921, 1922 and the fateful trip in 1924 and then subsequent attempts before it was successfully climbed in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_British_Mount_Everest_reconnaissance_expedition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_British_Mount_Everest_expedition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_British_Mount_Everest_expedition

https://aspectsofhistory.com/a-corpse-on-everest-george-mallory/

https://malloryandirvine.com/

https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/mystery-everest-mallory-irvine-climb-disappearance-what-happened/

Disney+ - Lost on Everest

Everest 1922 - Mick Conefrey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLOJAXPC_s

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering crush disasters - mainly Hillsborough where in 1989, 97 people were killed at a football game in Sheffield UK. We will then summarise some other crushes Astroworld where in 2021, 10 people were killed at a concert in Houston Texas and the Love Parade festival crush in Germany. This will be a 2 part series.

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/english-football-clubs-banned-from-europe

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/aug/10/police-uk-riots-football-postponements

Hillsborough:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229038/0581.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

https://iosh.com/news/hillsborough-30-years-on/

Astroworld:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/what-happened-astroworld-travis-scott/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59205840

Astroworld - countdown to tragedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYREIrmHLGM

Love Parade:

Dark records youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq5bcWOjdrU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Parade_disaster

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering crush disasters - mainly Hillsborough where in 1989, 97 people were killed at a football game in Sheffield UK. We will then summarise some other crushes Astroworld where in 2021, 10 people were killed at a concert in Houston Texas and the Love Parade festival crush in Germany. This will be a 2 part series.

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at whenitgoeswrongpod@gmail.com.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/english-football-clubs-banned-from-europe

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/aug/10/police-uk-riots-football-postponements

Hillsborough:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229038/0581.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

https://iosh.com/news/hillsborough-30-years-on/

Astroworld:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/what-happened-astroworld-travis-scott/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59205840

Astroworld - countdown to tragedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYREIrmHLGM

Love Parade:

Dark records youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq5bcWOjdrU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Parade_disaster

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering submarines and submarine disasters including how they are rescued, we will cover the Squalus rescue from 1937 and the very recent OceanGate Titan disaster from June 2023.

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Sources:
James Camerons Deepsea Challenge - Amazon Prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_rescue

Titan:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Mission-Titanic-part-3

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/22/timeline-oceangate-founding-expedition-history/70344305007/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-visiting-the-most-famous-shipwreck-in-the-world/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-27/what-happens-next-with-oceangate-titan-submersible/102523732

https://www.reddit.com/r/OceanGateTitan/comments/14olxkh/a_rubiks_cube_thick_socks_and_giddy_anticipation/

Squalus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sailfish_(SS-192)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCann_Rescue_Chamber

https://eu.fosters.com/story/news/2019/05/19/squalus-sinking-tragedy-and-triumph/5118683007/

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/squalus-ss-192/squalus-ss-192-sinking-rescure-of-survivors-and-salvage.html

These Terrible Hours - Peter Maas

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering the story of Aron Ralston who got his arm stuck whilst canyoning in 2003. In order to free himself, we had to survive days in the desert before cutting his own arm off and getting to safety.

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Sources:
https://canyonaccident.org/kolob-canyon-1993-07-15/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyoning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_Hours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston

https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Rangers-Find-Arm-That-Climber-Amputated-7360895.php

127 Hours - between a rock and a hard place - Aron Ralston

127 hours the movie - on All4

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering the story of the crash of the Challenger. The challenger was a space shuttle launch in 1986 which sadly exploded 76 seconds into flight in front of millions of people, killing all members of crew onboard.

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Sources:
Challenger: The Final Flight on Netflix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-L

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/29/us-space-shuttle-challenger-explodes-after-take-off-1986

https://www.britannica.com/event/Challenger-disaster

https://www.doopoll.co/post/challenger-disaster