James Nesbitt: Disasters That Changed Britain

Award-winning actor James Nesbitt (pictured) (Cold Feet, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man) takes an investigative journey through history in this original six-part series as he reveals what really happened in the countdown to some of the major disasters that shocked – and shaped – Britain. With individual narratives explored by journalists Donal MacIntyre (MacIntyre Investigates) and Anna Richardson (Super Shoppers, Naked Attraction), the series asks why warning signs were often ignored and how seemingly innocuous decisions contributed to the events that changed post-war Britain forever. The series continues with episodes exploring the Ladbroke Grove rail crash (1999), the Zeebrugge ferry disaster (1987), the Piper Alpha oil platform explosion (1988) and the Munich Air crash (1958). The series will also examine the King’s Cross Fire (1987) and the Grenfell Tower tragedy (2017). (History Channel)