Episode 8 - A Terrible Tragedy?
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Martin Fletcher, aged 12 and his brother Andrew, aged 11, were with their father, Uncle and Grandfather to see their favourite football team; Bradford City play their final match before being moved up into the 2nd division. 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. Sound Effects: zapsplat.com SuZe 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 Music by: 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/
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