James Nesbitt: Disasters That Changed Britain
Piper Alpha
Season 1 Episode 3 of 6
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
James Nesbitt: Disasters That Changed Britain airs on Sky History 2 at 11:00 AM, Saturday 21 December. (Subtitles.)
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James Nesbitt
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