The Day I Should Have Died

Season 1

10 episodes · Oct 1, 2016

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  • S1E1

    7/7 Bombing, London, 2005 Survivor(s): Gill Hicks

    Oct 1, 201645m

    On 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 peace.

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  • S1E2

    Yorkshire Ripper Attack, Leeds, 1980 Survivor(s): Mo Lea

    Oct 8, 201646m

    Mo 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 university.

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  • S1E3

    The Enniskillen Bombings, November 1987. Survivor(s): Stephen Gault

    Oct 15, 201645m

    Steven 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 victims.

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  • S1E4

    Serial Killer Peter Tobin. Survivor(s): Margaret Mountney

    Oct 22, 201648m

    Peter Tobin married Margaret Mountney when she was seventeen, a whirlwind romance which quickly descended to violence and rape.

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  • S1E5

    The Bataclan Attacks, Paris, 2015. Survivors: Caroline Laglande, Maureen Roussell

    Oct 29, 201647m

    Caroline 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.

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  • S1E6

    Paddington Railway Disaster Survivor(s): Pam Warren

    Nov 5, 201647m

    Pam 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 red light.

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  • S1E7

    Kegworth Air Disaster Survivors: Declan Brady, Dominica Mcgowan & Stephen Mccoy

    Nov 12, 201646m

    Declan 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.

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  • S1E8

    Murder of Mother Susan Lowson Survivor(s): Amanda Wright

    Nov 19, 201645m

    At 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 setting fire to the house.

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  • S1E9

    Forced Marriage Survivor(s): Sameem Ali

    Nov 26, 201648m

    Sameem 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.

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  • S1E10

    Anders Breivik Massacre, Utoya Island, Norway, 2011 Survivors: Jarl Riskjelle Gjerde, Tore Bekkedal, Knut Frydenlund, Hege Dalen

    Dec 3, 201647m

    The 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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