Episode 8 - A Terrible Tragedy?
Episode 8, Jan 12, 2021, 10:00 AM
Martin Fletcher, 12 and his brother Andrew, 11 were with their family to see their favourite football team, Bradford City play their final match before being moved up into the 2nd division of football. It was expected to be a momentous day, and it was...but for all the wrong reasons. What happened that day had devastating consequences for the Fletcher family and many, many other families. These consequences sent one of the Fletcher family on a 15 year long quest for answers.
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Sound Effects:
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Voices Provided by:
Narrator: SuZe
Martin Fletcher: Anonymous
John Fletcher: Anonymous
Uncle Peter: TH
Susan Fletcher: SuZe
“Gates are Locked” Female Voice: SuZe
“Get Everyone onto the Pitch” Male Voice: TH
Martin Fletcher: Anonymous
John Fletcher: Anonymous
Uncle Peter: TH
Susan Fletcher: SuZe
“Gates are Locked” Female Voice: SuZe
“Get Everyone onto the Pitch” Male Voice: TH
Music by:
Possession by Purple Planet
All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Possession by Purple Planet
All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bradford City Anthem (The Good Citizens - Take Me Home) Bradford City Hymn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDK9pGii1PI
All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.
Sources:
- 56: The Story of the Bradford Fire by Martin Fletcher
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/apr/18/bradford-fire-horrors-lies-silence-martin-fletcher-family
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/the-story-of-the-bradford-fire-book-extract
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-stafford-heginbotham-martin-fletcher
- https://100objectsbradford.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/84-in-memory-of-the-56-the-popplewell-inquiry-papers/
- https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/anger-judge-sir-oliver-popplewell-3363064
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/27/bradford-fire-inquiry-oliver-popplewell-interview
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/16/bradford-fire-andy-burnham-calls-for-fresh-investigation
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/dec/06/bradford-fire-forgotten-disaster-anniversary
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/16/bradford-fire-fifty-six-martin-fletcher-second-extract
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/06/west-yorkshire-police-ipcc-1985-bradford-city-fire
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_City_stadium_fire
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-38759001
- https://www.11v11.com/teams/bradford-city/tab/matches/season/1985/
- https://vgtips.co.uk/remembering-bradford-city-fire-with-survivor-martin-fletcher/
- https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/tag/stafford-heginbotham/