‘Then everything went black’ – listen to stirring new Stardust Tragedy podcast trailer | 83H1FWI | 2024-04-28 00:08:01
'Then everything went black' – listen to stirring new Stardust Tragedy podcast trailer | 83H1FWI | 2024-04-28 00:08:01
"HE said 'the place is on fire, we're not going to get everybody out – tell the officer to send absolutely everything that you have'" – is haunting testimony from the moment fire engulfed the Stardust nightclub in Dublin's Artane.
The Irish Sun's new Stardust Tragedy podcast will explore one of Ireland's worst disasters across an eight-part series, with the first trailer released today ahead of the opening episode on Thursday April 25.
The new production is brought to you by the team that made the hugely-successful podcast series The Kinahans and Making of a Detective.
Giving voice to victims' families and friends, survivors, campaigners, Stardust staff, emergency services and the politicians centrally involved, the Stardust Tragedy will bring listeners to the heart of a story 43 years in the making.
The first episode of the podcast will be released on April 25.
Damien Lane narrates this production, as he did The Kinahans, which has been downloaded over 1.5million times around the world since it was launched in 2023.
And as he details on the new trailer for the moving production, "846 people came through the doors that night. 44 would never come out. Four more died in hospital. It was one of Ireland's most catastrophic tragedies."
Harrowing recollections from the night detail how "people were screaming inside, you could hear them screaming".
"And then everything went black, and everybody started squealing and roaring, and we could see the flames and everybody then, it was just like wild animals."
Damien continued: "Only fate decided who lived, and who died. And for some survivors, they never really got out. And for the families left behind, their souls were taken with their kids inside that building."
Grieving families detail their torment, admitting: "Those that got out of the building got out of hell, but we've lived in hell."
The podcast series will detail that fateful night, and the horrendous 43 years that followed for the 48 victims' devastated families.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> It tells the story from the very beginning up until the current day, with several individual stories of the young victims as they set off for the Valentine's night disco in the Stardust nightclub in Artane in 1981.
The podcast continues with a thorough investigation into the fatal fire, testimonies from survivors, firefighters and first responders on the scene, and the devastating aftermath that followed as families fought for over four decades for justice for their loved ones.
The series concludes with Episode 8: Unlawful Killing, which provides expert insight into the final verdict from the Stardust inquests.
Irish Sun editor Fiona Wynne said: "Few events in Irish history have soaked into the souls of the Irish people in the way the Stardust fire has.
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"The scale of the loss, the grief, the sadness is difficult to comprehend, 48 young lives robbed in minutes, with broken families left to pick up the pieces.
"But living alongside that pain has been the inspirational courage, tenacity and grit of those left behind, driven for over four decades by love, stopping at nothing to clear the name of their son or daughter, brother or sister, family or friend.
"In The Stardust Tragedy the families of the victims take us through the chaos and horror which unfolded on Valentine's Day 1981, right up to the long-awaited and triumphant ruling of unlawful killing on Thursday April 18, 2024, 43 years later.
"It's a privilege to be able to share their stories."
Listen to Episode One of the Stardust Tragedy, from the creators of the Kinahans and the Making of a Detective podcasts, out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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