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Surviving Disaster is a 2006 BBC, Discovery Channel, and ProSieben co-production documentary series about disasters in the 20th century, starring people who survived them. It was produced in association with France 5.
Original Release
01/10/2006 on BBC
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Bernard Hill | Narrator / Himself - Narrator |
| David MacInnis | Dave Johnston |
| Sean Whale | Forestry Officer |
| Gregory Floy | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Cliff Everett Smith | Ed Sieffert |
| Kathleen Mullan | Kathy |
| Richard Meek | Charlie Beckwith |
| Jonathan Chambers | Jim |
| Brian H. Scott | Police Captain |
| Roger Alborough | Anatoli Dyatlov |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Munich Air Crash | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 |
| 2 | Eruption at Mount St. Helens | Tuesday, 17 January 2006 |
| 3 | Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | Tuesday, 24 January 2006 |
| 4 | San Francisco Earthquake | Tuesday, 07 February 2006 |
| 5 | Fastnet Yacht Race | Tuesday, 14 February 2006 |
| 6 | Iran Hostage Rescue | Tuesday, 21 February 2006 |
| 7 | The Sinking of the Estonia | Tuesday, 28 February 2006 |
Directors
Matthew Wortman, Tim Robinson, Dan Reed, Clara Glynn, Nick Murphy, Nat Sharman
Writers
Matthew Wortman, Dan Reed, Christabelle Dilks, Nick Murphy
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Bernard Hill | Narrator / Himself - Narrator |
| David MacInnis | Dave Johnston |
| Sean Whale | Forestry Officer |
| Gregory Floy | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Cliff Everett Smith | Ed Sieffert |
| Kathleen Mullan | Kathy |
| Richard Meek | Charlie Beckwith |
| Jonathan Chambers | Jim |
| Brian H. Scott | Police Captain |
| Roger Alborough | Anatoli Dyatlov |
| Philip Rhodes | Anatoli Sitnikov |
| Lisa Rose | Katya Gubarev |
| Tamzin Griffin | Luba Akimov |
| Roger Bingham | Alf Clarke |
| Jeremy Legat | Magnus Lindstrom |
| Joe Boyd | VW Van Guy |
| Peter Hall | Donal Mullineaux |
| Tom Burroughs | Simon Fleming |
| Kyle Sorrell | BJ McGuire |
| Michael Tassoni | Sergeant Petty |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Jill Fullerton-Smith | Executive Producer |
| Greg Lanning | Executive Producer |
| Jesús Montero | Producer |
| Lina Miseikyte | Producer |
| Matthew Hamilton | Producer |
| Johann Insanally | Producer |
| Greg Lanning | Producer |
| Josie Stein | Producer |
| Tim Robinson | Producer |
| Chris Roff | Producer |
| Nik Gawinowski | Producer |
| Philip Grosvenor | Producer |
| Shel Piercy | Producer |
| Matthew Wortman | Producer |
| Laura Burrows | Producer |
Editors
Jon Ellis, Stefan Ronowicz, Graeme Dawson, Gerard Evans, Martin Swann
