Hillsborough: The Full Story
Ninety-six football fans never came home from a match in 1989. This is the full story of the Hillsborough disaster. What started as a FA Cup football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield ended as one of the worst days in British sporting history. Grace Mailey and Tony Snell guide you through the full story, with interviews and audio from BBC Radio Merseyside’s archive over the last 30 years. Produced by Steve Coleman, David North and Christian Spooner. Executive Producer: Pauline McAdam. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside and published in 2019.
Episodes
After suffering catastrophic injuries from the disaster, Andrew Devine died in 2021, making him the 97th fan to be unlawfully killed at a football match in 1989.
Nobody has ever been held criminally accountable for the deaths; nor for the cover up into what happened.
Grace Mailey and Tony Snell tell the full story of the Hillsborough tragedy and subsequent cover up.
Written and produced by Pauline Mcadam.
Parents Trevor and Jenni Hicks return to the football ground for the first time since their teenage daughters Sarah and Victoria were unlawfully killed in 1989.
Presented by Sue Johnston.
We look at the attempts of the families to secure criminal trials in relation to the deaths of their loved ones and the subsequent fall out for those concerned.
Grace Mailey and Tony Snell guide you through the full story of the Hillsborough disaster.
If you're affected by issues heard in this series, support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.
As the world “moved on” the families and survivors found they were not getting answers and kept pushing to find out why their loved ones had died, despite old newspaper lies about the behaviour of the fans taking hold again.
Grace Mailey and Tony Snell guide you through the full story of the Hillsborough disaster.
What followed were weeks of mourning in the city’s two cathedral’s and at the famous Anfield Kop as the families of the victims and the city of Liverpool grieved for the dead and the seriously injured.
Grace Mailey and Tony Snell guide you through the full story of the Hillsborough disaster.
After the disaster at the FA Cup Semi Final in Hillsborough in 1989, fans struggled with the enormity of what was happening around them.
Some fans struggled to save the lives of their friends on the pitch and faced the long journey home.
In the days before social media and mobile phones the shock and the trauma were made even worse by the uncertainty over who was safe and who had perished.
Grace Mailey and Tony Snell guide you throu...
Ninety-six football fans never came home from a match in 1989. This is the full story of the Hillsborough disaster.
What started as a FA Cup football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield ended as one of the worst days in British sporting history.
Grace Mailey and Tony Snell guide you through the full story, with interviews and audio from BBC Radio Merseyside’s archive over the...
An introduction to a podcast telling the full story of the Hillsborough disaster, when 96 football fans never came home from a match in 1989.
What started as a FA Cup football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield ended as one of the worst days in British sporting history.
Presented by Grace Mailey and Tony Snell.
Produced by Steve Coleman, David North and Christian Spooner.
Executive P...
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