Survival
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Survival
When the stakes are life and death, you'd be surprised at the lengths you’d go to survive. Pain, hunger, and fear can seem like paralyzing obstacles, but in the face of real danger, they’re actually what keeps us alive. Every week, we'll follow a different survivor's visceral and inspiring fight fo...
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Beating the Odds: Reshma Begum
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Beating the Odds: Michael Benson
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Beating the Odds: José Salvador Alvarenga
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Beating the Odds: Beck Weathers
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Beating the Odds: Anna Bågenholm
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Crossover Week: Natural Disasters (Potato Famine Pt. 2)
If you enjoy the true stories told in Survival, check out this episode from our series Natural Disasters: By the late 1840s, with no end in sight to t...
Crossover Week: Natural Disasters (Potato Famine Pt. 1)
If you enjoy the true stories told in Survival, check out this episode from our series Natural Disasters: In 1845, a fungus destroyed Ireland’s potato...
Jan Baalsrud
As a leader in the Norwegian resistance against the Nazis in the 1940s, 25-year-old Jan Baalsrud endured frostbite, gangrene, snow blindness, and star...
Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 3
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: January 1847. Fed by the remains of their friends and family, the surviving members of t...
Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 2
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: Snowed in, and unable to get their wagons over the Sierra Nevadas, the Donner Party set...
Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 1
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: On May 12, 1846, a wagon train set out toward the West Coast of North America. The trip...
Brendan McDonough Pt. 2
At 4 P.M. on June 30th, 2013, the Yarnell Hill wildfire in the Arizona mountains spiraled out of control. Brendan McDonough was separated from the res...
Brendan McDonough Pt. 1
In 2011, Brendan McDonough joined an elite wildland firefighting crew called the Granite Mountain Hotshots. But no amount of training would prepare hi...
Polaris Crew Pt. 2
After Captain Charles Hall perished under mysterious circumstances in 1871, the crew of the Polaris faced a difficult question: should they continue t...
Polaris Crew Pt. 1
In 1871, Captain Charles Hall left Brooklyn Harbor, New York with a ship, crew, and a mandate from the US Government: Journey farther North than anyon...
The Vladimirovichi Pt. 2: Three Brothers
With Kirill now gone to Finland, Boris and Andrei stayed behind to care for their mother. But when a Civil War finally broke out, they too would be fo...
The Vladimirovichi Pt. 1: Three Brothers
Before Russia was thrown into turmoil in 1917, a set of Romanov brothers spent their days focused on surviving palace politics. That is until one of t...
Rwanda Pt. 2: The Survivors
As the Rwandan genocide continued to rage, the Tutsis who had survived the initial violence found themselves in more danger than ever. As their killer...
Rwanda Pt. 1: The Survivors
Central Africa: In the spring of 1994, a paramilitary group called the “Interahamwe” set about exterminating the Tutsi people—and anyone who sympathiz...
Glenn McDole Pt. 2: Palawan’s Last POW
After being taken prisoner in the Philippines in 1942, U.S. Marine Glenn “Mac” McDole spent 2 horrifying years in a prison camp on the island of Palaw...
Glenn McDole Pt. 1: Palawan’s Last POW
December 14, 1944: Japanese soldiers massacre 139 of 150 American POWs. One of the eleven to survive is U.S. Marine Glenn “Mac” McDole—despite under t...
Jonathan Kathrein Pt. 2: Great White Attack
For teenage surfer Jonathan Kathrein, another day at the beach turns into the fight for his life as he finds himself in the jaws of a gigantic Great W...
Jonathan Kathrein Pt. 1: Great White Attack
On August 26th, 1998, sixteen-year-old Jonathan Kathrein and his best friend Sean set out for a final surf of the summer at Northern California's Bode...
Joe Simpson Pt. 2: Cutting the Rope
After Joe Simpson's climbing partner cut the rope they had used to lower the injured Joe down the Siula Grande mountain in Peru, Joe fell 150 into an...
Joe Simpson Pt. 1: Into the Crevasse
Siula Grande is a 20,814 foot behemoth that sits along the Peruvian Andes, a challenging ascent for even the most experienced climber. In 1985, Joe Si...
The Donner Party Pt. 3: Journey’s End
January 1847. Fed by the remains of their friends and family, the surviving members of the Forlorn Hope managed to get through the snow and reach civi...
The Donner Party Pt. 2: Nowhere to Go
Snowed in, and unable to get their wagons over the Sierra Nevadas, the Donner Party set up camp by Truckee Lake and waited for the winter of 1846 to p...
The Donner Party Pt. 1: Westward Bound
On May 12, 1846, a wagon train set out toward the West Coast of North America. Lead by George Donner and James F. Reed, these settlers were determined...
Captain Thomas Musgrave Pt. 2: Enslaved
After 18 months on Auckland Island, fighting to survive, Captain Thomas Musgrave came to a desperate conclusion on Christmas Day 1864. They could no l...
Captain Thomas Musgrave Pt. 1: Castaway
In November of 1863, Captain Thomas Musgrave led his five-man crew on a search for riches on Campbell Island. Unfortunately, the island had already be...
Hurricane Camille Pt. 2: Seabees and Palm Trees
The terrible storm of August 18th, 1969 utterly devastated the Gulf Coast. However, a coordinated effort from the National Guard, the Seabees, trucker...
Hurricane Camille Pt. 1: It's Raining Death
Riding a summer high, the citizens of the Mississippi Coast, also known as the “Riviera of the South,” never expected that on August 18th, 1969, their...
57th Georgia Regiment Pt. 2: March to Battle
After a year of endless marching and retreating, the 57th Georgia Regiment finally saw their first battle of the Civil War in 1862. They soon learned...
57th Georgia Regiment Pt. 1: Brothers in Arms
When Georgia seceded from the Union in 1861, the Vinson brothers volunteered for service in hopes they would be stationed close to home. When their vo...
Jeanne Pocius Pt. 2: Aftershock
After a harrowing 24 hours following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Jeanne Pocius was on the verge of exhaustion. But the danger was far from over.
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Jeanne Pocius Pt. 1: Shaken
In 2010, volunteer music teacher Jeanne Pocius barely survived a massive earthquake that devastated Haiti. Despite zero medical training, Jeanne did e...
Bob Champion Pt. 2: Back On The Horse
Determined to return to horse racing and compete for Grand Nationals in the early 1980s, Bob pushed himself through two final rounds of chemotherapy....
Bob Champion Pt. 1: A Race Against Time
After his diagnosis in 1979, accomplished jockey Bob Champion went through multiple rounds of chemotherapy, but his cancer still hadn’t been eradicate...
Carolyn Maull McKinstry Pt. 2: Injustice
As she climbed through the wreckage of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama, Carolyn was relieved that she and her siblings had all survived. But...
Carolyn Maull McKinstry Pt. 1: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
A church is meant to be a place of peace, comfort, and community. But when a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in...