30 min

EP02: Six minutes past three Hillsborough: The Full Story

    • Personal Journals

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 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 through the full story of the Hillsborough disaster.

30 min

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