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The CRASH BANG WALLOP Podcast

Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas discuss the most famous disasters of all time, along with lots of other terrible calamities you may never have even heard about!Every two weeks we'll take you through what w... Read more

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S4 Ep38: The Faversham Explosives Disaster - 1916

S4 Ep38: The Faversham Explosives Disaster - 1916

It’s 1916. It’s Uplees just outside Faversham, and the good people of the Explosives Loading Company are about to open t... Read more

11 May 2020

58mins

Ranked #2

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S4 Ep15: New Coke - 1985

S4 Ep15: New Coke - 1985

It's 1985, it's Atlanta Georgia and in the underground lair of PROJECT KANSAS evil soft drink scientists are cooking up ... Read more

24 Feb 2019

43mins

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S4 Ep28: The Le Mans Motor Racing Disaster - 1955

S4 Ep28: The Le Mans Motor Racing Disaster - 1955

It’s 1955. It’s Le Mans, France and a quarter of a million people have turned out to watch one of the most boring sporti... Read more

16 Sep 2019

57mins

Ranked #4

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S4 Ep17: The Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster - 1987

S4 Ep17: The Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster - 1987

It's 1987. It's the Port of Zeebrugge, and a whole load of Sun readers are on their way home from a lovely trip to Belgi... Read more

24 Mar 2019

55mins

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Ranked #5

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S4 Ep29: The Moorgate Tube Crash - 1975

S4 Ep29: The Moorgate Tube Crash - 1975

It’s 1975, it’s fancy central London and at Moorgate Underground Station a load of miserable commuters are waiting to ca... Read more

7 Oct 2019

57mins

Ranked #6

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S4 Ep4: The Battle of Isandlwana (Rorke's Drift in Context) - 1879

S4 Ep4: The Battle of Isandlwana (Rorke's Drift in Context) - 1879

It's 1879, it's South Africa, and Britain fancies nicking another bit of the world that don't belong to her. In what is ... Read more

24 Sep 2018

46mins

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S4 Ep7: The San Francisco Earthquake - 1906

S4 Ep7: The San Francisco Earthquake - 1906

It's 1906, It's San Francisco and it's far too early in the morning to deal with this sort of nonsense. In what the Coll... Read more

5 Nov 2018

39mins

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S4 Ep3: Gerald Ratner's Infamous Speech - 1991

S4 Ep3: Gerald Ratner's Infamous Speech - 1991

It's 1991, it's the Royal Albert Hall and Gerald Ratner is about to tell a joke that he'll regret for the rest of his li... Read more

10 Sep 2018

42mins

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S4 Ep5: "Pea Souper" - The Great Smog of London - 1952

S4 Ep5: "Pea Souper" - The Great Smog of London - 1952

It's 1952 and London looks like the set of an 80s music video. In what historians will one day call the fifth episode of... Read more

8 Oct 2018

43mins

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S4 Ep21: The Slapton Sands Tragedy - 1944

S4 Ep21: The Slapton Sands Tragedy - 1944

It's 1944. It's wartime Devon, and a shed load of American troops have just turned up in a tiny British village to take ... Read more

19 May 2019

38mins

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S4 Ep37: The Musee Etienne Terrus - 2018

S4 Ep37: The Musee Etienne Terrus - 2018

It’s 2018. It’s Elne in Southern France, and the Mayor has just cut the ribbon on one of the the most worthless art coll... Read more

28 Apr 2020

55mins

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S4 Ep22: The Strasbourg Dancing Plague - 1518

S4 Ep22: The Strasbourg Dancing Plague - 1518

It's 1518, It's medieval Strasbourg and Frau Troffea has just kicked off the least enjoyable dance off since Ann Widdeco... Read more

2 Jun 2019

46mins

Ranked #13

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S4 Ep9: Crinkley Bottom Theme Park - 1994

S4 Ep9: Crinkley Bottom Theme Park - 1994

It's the 90s and Noel's House Party is one of the biggest shows on British television! In what must now be the ninth epi... Read more

3 Dec 2018

46mins

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S4 Ep6: BBC's Eldorado Soap Opera - 1992

S4 Ep6: BBC's Eldorado Soap Opera - 1992

It's 1992, and ITV are wiping the floor with the BBC using a soap made out of television. In what must now be numericall... Read more

22 Oct 2018

42mins

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S4 Ep23: The Big Dipper Roller Coaster Crash - 1972

S4 Ep23: The Big Dipper Roller Coaster Crash - 1972

It's 1972. It's London, England and in Battersea Park loads of kids are riding a roller coaster with a worse safety reco... Read more

16 Jun 2019

39mins

Ranked #16

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S4 Ep32: The Iraq Poison Grain Disaster - 1971

S4 Ep32: The Iraq Poison Grain Disaster - 1971

It’s 1971. It’s Iraq and Saddam Hussein has just imported 95,000 tonnes of chemically coated Mexican grain so dangerous ... Read more

16 Dec 2019

38mins

Ranked #17

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S4 Ep26: The Victoria Hall Stampede - 1883

S4 Ep26: The Victoria Hall Stampede - 1883

It's 1883. It's The Victoria Hall Sunderland, and an out-of-town prestidigitator is about to take part in the worst thea... Read more

19 Aug 2019

37mins

Ranked #18

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S4 Ep16: The Bradford Sweet Poisoning - 1858

S4 Ep16: The Bradford Sweet Poisoning - 1858

It's 1858, It's Victorian Bradford, and 'Humbug' Billy is about to sell a batch of boiled mint lozenges ten-thousand tim... Read more

10 Mar 2019

43mins

Ranked #19

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S4 Ep30: The Lewes Avalanche - 1836

S4 Ep30: The Lewes Avalanche - 1836

It’s Christmas 1836, it’s Lewes on the south coast of England and a whole load of snugly Dickensian folk are about to ge... Read more

29 Oct 2019

42mins

Ranked #20

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S4 Ep13: The Hoover Free Flights Fiasco - 1992

S4 Ep13: The Hoover Free Flights Fiasco - 1992

It's 1992, and the Hoover Suction Sweeper Company are about to launch a sales promotion that sucks harder than its Turbo... Read more

27 Jan 2019

45mins

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