51 episodes
Survival Spotify Studios
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4.7 • 155 Ratings
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When the stakes are life and death, you'd be surprised at the lengths you’d go to survive. Pain, hunger, and fear can seem like paralyzing obstacles, but in the face of real danger, they’re actually what keeps us alive. Every week, we'll follow a different survivor's visceral and inspiring fight for life, and examine how the trauma impacted them forever. These are the stories of what happens when the human self-preservation instinct is pushed to its limit, through the eyes of the world's most resilient survivors. Survival is a Spotify Original from Parcast.
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Beating the Odds: Reshma Begum
This special five-part series is brought to you by Medical Mysteries, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like it, subscribe to Medical Mysteries on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Today we’re discussing Reshma Begum, a seamstress in Bangladesh who was pulled out alive from the wreckage of a building…17 days after it collapsed.
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Beating the Odds: Michael Benson
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Today we’re discussing Michael Benson, a cameraman who survived a helicopter crash, only to find himself stuck inside a volcano’s crater…for two days.
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Beating the Odds: José Salvador Alvarenga
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Today we’re discussing José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman who spent over 13 months adrift at sea…and survived.
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Beating the Odds: Beck Weathers
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Today we’re discussing Beck Weathers, a Texas pathologist who survived the disastrous 1996 blizzard on Mount Everest...
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Beating the Odds: Anna Bågenholm
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Today we’re discussing the story of Anna Bågenholm, whose heart stopped in 1999 after she was trapped in a labyrinth of thick ice for nearly an hour and a half…
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Crossover Week: Natural Disasters (Potato Famine Pt. 2)
If you enjoy the true stories told in Survival, check out this episode from our series Natural Disasters: By the late 1840s, with no end in sight to the potato famine gripping Ireland and no help coming from the British government, the Irish people were left with few options. Forced to choose between dire workhouses or leaving the country, there was no easy solution to ending their hunger.
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Customer Reviews
I love the storytelling!
It feels like if they’re narrating it only to you
About time!
It’s about time someone finally started to move away from crime and got into other interesting, riveting stories! I loved “I Shouldn’t Be Alive” and this is as close as I’ve found in podcasts or anywhere. There is a lot of value in survival stories. The incredible effort people make to find a way though their terrible situation is stirring to the core and hearing of their triumph over incredible odds is good for the soul.
My only annoyance is the same with all Parcast lately- Enough of this spoilers! What’s the point of that?
Interesting
I am loving the ‘beating the odds’ series though I wish the stories were more in-depth and went for longer.