In 1988 Joe Meanen was a young scaffolder working on the Piper Alpha oil rig, on the night it exploded. It was situated off Aberdeen, Scotland and was home to more than 200 men at a time. One calm Summer's night a gas leak caused a huge explosi

World Suicide Prevention Day: Sarah Frame

Sep 10th, 2021 1h 1m

Friday 10th September is World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide is one of the last taboos in our society. Sarah Frame has more experience than most. She lost both her husband and one of her sons to suicide and in this episode she talks about liv

Bobby Griffin

Aug 11th, 2021 50m 7s

Bobby Griffin’s motorbike was hit by a speeding driver as he rode home one evening. He was thrown several metres through the air, suffering life changing injuries. Surgeons fought for two years to save his leg, before he decided to have it ampu

Sean Jeffreys

Jul 21st, 2021 48m 48s

Former international drug smuggler turned counsellor to the rich and famous, Sean Jeffreys spent his twenties in and out of European jails. After years smoking everything from dope to heroin, he got himself clean, secured a place at University

Danny Crates

Jul 9th, 2021 44m 33s

Paralympic Gold Medallist and Former World Champion Danny Crates was once dubbed Britain's Best Disability Athlete. He knows what it's like to win, and to come close.Before athletics, he'd been an engineer working a gap year in Australia. Whils

Carla Carlisle

Jun 30th, 2021 52m 33s

Carla Carlisle always wanted to be a mother. But after years battling with an abusive relationship, IVF and miscarriage she decided to go it alone. She became a single foster mother. She was given just a few hours notice to foster JC, but six m

Scott Richardson

Jun 21st, 2021 40m 50s

21 years ago this month Scott Richardson was inches from death after crashing whilst racing a motorbike at the Isle of Man TT. He'd been riding motorbikes pretty much from the moment he could walk and grew up going to the TT with his parents a

Mandy Ogunmokun

Jun 21st, 2021 38m 36s

Mandy Ogunmokun is a former prostitute, drug addict and inmate. She grew up in an abusive home, where her mother and grandmother were drug abusing prostitutes who first sold her for sex when she was just 4 years old. She spent her formative yea

Jaco Van Gass

Jun 21st, 2021 45m 38s

Paralympic hopeful Jaco Van Gass has trekked to the North Pole with Prince Harry, attempted to summit Mount Everest and cycled across America. But life wasn’t always about extreme adventure. After a modest upbringing in a hardworking family in

Introducing What Doesn't Kill Us: The Podcast

Jun 8th, 2021 2m 20s

Welcome to What Doesn't Kill Us: The Podcast. Kaija Larke brings you the heart-stopping, uplifting and inspirational stories of those who have experienced life changing events and injuries, to see what we can all learn from them. Subscribe now,