There are prison escapes… and then there is Papillon. For more than half a century, the story of Henri Charrière, better known by his nickname Papillon, has fascinated readers around the world. His memoir tells of wrongful conviction, brutal imprisonment in the infamous French penal colonies, daring escape attempts, and […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep 70 – The Birmingham Six
Today we are continuing a story that began in Birmingham on a cold November evening in 1974, when two bombs exploded in crowded city-centre pubs and changed dozens of lives forever. Make sure you have listened to part 1! YouTube Episode: https://youtu.be/95zUu3LqXI0 Spotify episode: Available on all Podcast platforms. […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep 69 – THE BIRMINGHAM PUB BOMBINGS
The Birmingham Pub Bombings remain one of the most significant terrorist attacks ever carried out on the British mainland during the period known as The Troubles. For those who lived through it, the memory never truly faded. For younger generations, it remains an important chapter in British history. Today, we […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep 68 – Histórias Reais dos Ouvintes (PT)
Hi guys, this next episode will be in Portuguese, so if you’re listening on any podcast platform and you don’t understand, please switch to YouTube, and there you can choose your language. Bem-vindos de volta ao The Storytelling Podcast, o vosso cantinho acolhedor para histórias que nos fazem pensar, arrepiar […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep 67 – THE HALIFAX SLASHER
What if fear is the real threat? Today’s episode takes us to Halifax, a market town in West Yorkshire, England, where during a few remarkable weeks in late 1938, ordinary people became caught up in a wave of panic so powerful that it transformed everyday life. But what if it […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep 66 – The Byford Dolphin Diving Accident
Today we are travelling into one of the most extreme working environments ever created by human beings, a place where men voluntarily lived under immense pressure, worked hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the sea, and trusted their lives to a system that had to function perfectly every single […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep 65 – unDEfeated: Desange’s Story
Today’s episode comes from Desange Kuenihira. Desange is a refugee, entrepreneur, speaker, and the CEO and founder of unDEfeated, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and opportunities for underprivileged youth and women facing extreme financial hardship in Uganda. This is a story about finding your voice, overcoming silence, resilience, […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep 64 – Time Slips Compilation
Today, we are diving into a series of strange and real time slip cases, moments where people appear to have stepped outside of their own time, encountering places, people, and realities that should not have existed, at least not in the way they experienced them. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/OKYl1wNAR_E Spotify […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep 63 – The Whistle Beneath the Tepui
In the southern region of Venezuela, deep within the vast wilderness of Canaima National Park, there are landscapes with Tepuis. A Tepui, or tepuy, is a table-top mountain, or mesas, because of its flat surface. They can be found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern […]