The Day I Should Have Died
The Day I Should Have Died
Survivors' harrowing tales of cheating death, including escaping from serial killers, shootings and natural disasters.
7/7 Bombing
Gill Hicks, a commuter in London who is in one of the carriages of a Tube train ripped apart by a terrorist bomb carried by 19-year-old suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay.
Yorkshire Ripper Attack
Mo Lea, an art student in Leeds in 1980 is attacked as she makes her way home after a night in the pub with friends planning her 21st birthday.
The Enniskillen Bombings
The case of Steven Gault, who stood beside his father when a bomb exploded, killing his father and 10 others instantly, and has campaigned for justice ever since.
Peter Tobin
The case of Margaret Mountney, who married Peter Tobin when she was 17 - a whirlwind romance which quickly descended to violence and rape.
The Bataclan Attacks
A survivor from the attack on the Bataclan concert hall in November 2015 recounts how she hid with 40 others from the gunmen, and now runs an organization to support survivors.
Paddington Railway Disaster
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.
Kegworth Air Disaster
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.
Murder of Susan Lowson
The case of Amanda Wright, whose mother was murdered by family friend John Dickinson, when he tried to kill both of them before setting fire to the house.
Sameem Ali
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.
Anders Breivik Massacre
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.