James Nesbitt: Disasters That Changed Britain

Sky History 2

3:00 AM to 4:00 AM

Monday 4 November

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In 1970, British Petroleum struck oil beneath the North Sea. On the back of industrial unrest, the promise of lucrative work was too good to be true, but by the mid-1980s, with poor management within the company, a gas leak saw the untimely deaths of 167 men on the Piper Alpha platform. The actor revisits events of the explosion of July 1988, one of the most devastating man-made catastrophes to date