The Day I Should Have Died
It meets a host of people who have survived life-threatening ordeals who share their experiences and explain how their lives were
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.7/7 Bombing, London, 2005 Survivor(s): Gill Hicks
01-10-201645mOn July 7th 2005, Gill Hicks lay trapped in a smoke-filled train carriage. She was the last living person to be rescued after the attack, and is now a motivational speaker for peac...
- Ep 2
2.Yorkshire Ripper Attack, Leeds, 1980 Survivor(s): Mo Lea
08-10-201646mMo Lea was attacked with a hammer by Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe. The attack almost ruined her life, leaving her with horrific injuries, but now she lectures art at a universi...
- Ep 3
3.The Enniskillen Bombings, November 1987. Survivor(s): Stephen Gault
15-10-201645mSteven Gault was standing beside his father when a bomb exploded, instantly killing his father and ten others. Since then he has campaigned for justice for his family and the other...
- Ep 4
4.Serial Killer Peter Tobin. Survivor(s): Margaret Mountney
22-10-201648mPeter Tobin married Margaret Mountney when she was seventeen, a whirlwind romance which quickly descended to violence and rape.
- Ep 5
5.The Bataclan Attacks, Paris, 2015. Survivors: Caroline Laglande, Maureen Roussell
29-10-201647mCaroline Langlade hid with 40 other people as ISIS gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall in November 2015. Now she runs an organisation to support the survivors.
- Ep 6
6.Paddington Railway Disaster Survivor(s): Pam Warren
05-11-201647mPam Warren was a commuter on the ill-fated Reading to Paddington Great Western train on 5th October 1999 which crashed at Ladbroke Grove into a Thames Turbo train that had jumped a...
- Ep 7
7.Kegworth Air Disaster Survivors: Declan Brady, Dominica Mcgowan & Stephen Mccoy
12-11-201646mDeclan Brady was on a flight from London to Belfast when the aircraft crashed; he managed to escape, having to crawl over people who were dead or dying in the process.
- Ep 8
8.Murder of Mother Susan Lowson Survivor(s): Amanda Wright
19-11-201645mAt age four Amanda Wright was in bed with her mum Susan Lowson when Lowson was strangled to death by family friend John Dickinson. He then tried to do the same to Amanda before set...
- Ep 9
9.Forced Marriage Survivor(s): Sameem Ali
26-11-201648mSameem Ali was taken to Pakistan and made to marry a stranger; she became pregnant and was left isolated from her peers back home, told she could go home only if she was pregnant.
- Ep 10
10.Anders Breivik Massacre, Utoya Island, Norway, 2011 Survivors: Jarl Riskjelle Gjerde, Tore Bekkedal, Knut Frydenlund, Hege Dalen
03-12-201647mThe case of Anders Breivik and the massacre on Utøya island in 2011, focusing on how one boy threw himself in front of Breivik's gun to save the life of a girl he didn't even know.
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