Black October: the Senghenydd Disaster

Send us Fan Mail On 14 October 1913, at 8:00 am, a catastrophic gas and coal‑dust explosion ripped through the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, South Wales. Almost 950 miners were underground—a single spark triggered Britain's worst mining disaster, killing 439 men and boys, and even took the life of one rescuer This podcast revisits that fateful day with powerful storytelling: tracing the lives behind the numbers, exploring the systemic failures ignored by management, and uncovering t...