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When Brian Dowling lost his mum Rosie two years ago, it changed his outlook on life. Grief is a complicated journey, and one that Brian now endeavours to explore with the help of his friends and family. Join Brian and his nearest and dearest as they grow to understand death through open conversation, humour and honesty.
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A series of short, original podcasts which draws on OpenRoom’s 16 years of experience in connecting global businesses. Informal conversations across a wide range of issues between industry experts, innovative suppliers and their high-powered customers.
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Pemberton Mill. In 1860, the mill collapsed and then caught on fire in the worst industrial accident in Massachusetts history. Original Air Date: April 2, 2023 Episode Sources https://www.in2013dollars.com/ https://en.wikip…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Granville Rail Disaster. A poorly located bridge support and wooden rail cars led to the worst rail disaster in Australian history. Original Air Date: March 19, 2023 Episode Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_r…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Cypress St Viaduct. A double decker freeway that served as one of the approaches to the San-Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the viaduct collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Original Air Date: March 5, 2023 Episod…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about Frank Slide. In the middle of the night in 1903, part of the town of Frank was buried under a rock slide in 100 seconds. Original Air Date: February 19, 2023 Episode Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank,_Alberta https://…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans. During construction, the northern section of the building collapsed in 2019 and is still under investigation. Original Air Date: February 5, 2023 Episode Sources https…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Juliana Bridge crane collapse in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. A poorly planned lift that had little to no consideration for safety led to the collapse of two cranes and a new bridge section in the middle of this small …
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Sudbury Effect. Undoing a century of damage, little by little and what went from green and lush, to black and barren, back to green again. Sudbury is now said to have the cleanest air of any city in Ontario. Original Air Da…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about PFOA/C8 Contamination (Dupont Scandal). PFOA has been poisoning living creatures in the Ohio river basin for decades. One brave lawyer took on a huge corporation in this real life David and Goliath story. Original Air Date: Dec…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about asbestos. Deadly little fibers that are in seemingly everything and can lay dormant for decades before wreaking havoc. Original Air Date: November 27, 2022 Episode Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos https://www.asbe…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Bhopal Gas Leak disaster in India. Due to malfunctioning safety systems and a lack of safety culture, many people were poisoned and their lives impacted forever. Original Air Date: November 13, 2022 Episode Sources https://…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about Minamata Disease. How one small Japanese town suffered from decades of mercury poisoning. Original Air Date: October 30, 2022 Episode Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata…
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. Based on the movie Airplane!, this week’s mini failure is a bonus episode about the harrowing events of Trans American Flight 209. Trans American Flight 209 from Los Angeles to Chicago made a miraculous landing in Chicago after the flight crew was incapacitated…
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