Survival
Survival
Spotify Studios
When the stakes are life and death, you'd be surprised at the lengths you’d go to survive. Pain, hunger, and fear can seem like paralyzing obstacles, but in the face of real danger, they’re actually what keeps us alive. ​Every week, we'll follow a different survivor's visceral and inspiring fight for life, and examine how the trauma impacted them forever. ​These are the stories of what happens when the human self-preservation instinct is pushed to its limit, through the eyes of the world's most resilient survivors. Survival is a Spotify Original from Parcast.
Beating the Odds: Reshma Begum
This special five-part series is brought to you by Medical Mysteries, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like it, subscribe to Medical Mysteries on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Today we’re discussing Reshma Begum, a seamstress in Bangladesh who was pulled out alive from the wreckage of a building…17 days after it collapsed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 8, 2020
12 min
Beating the Odds: Michael Benson
This special five-part series is brought to you by Medical Mysteries, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like it, subscribe to Medical Mysteries on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Today we’re discussing Michael Benson, a cameraman who survived a helicopter crash, only to find himself stuck inside a volcano’s crater…for two days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 7, 2020
13 min
Beating the Odds: José Salvador Alvarenga
This special five-part series is brought to you by Medical Mysteries, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like it, subscribe to Medical Mysteries on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Today we’re discussing José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman who spent over 13 months adrift at sea…and survived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 6, 2020
12 min
Beating the Odds: Beck Weathers
This special five-part series is brought to you by Medical Mysteries, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like it, subscribe to Medical Mysteries on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Today we’re discussing Beck Weathers, a Texas pathologist who survived the disastrous 1996 blizzard on Mount Everest... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 5, 2020
13 min
Beating the Odds: Anna Bågenholm
This special five-part series is brought to you by Medical Mysteries, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like it, subscribe to Medical Mysteries on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Today we’re discussing the story of Anna Bågenholm, whose heart stopped in 1999 after she was trapped in a labyrinth of thick ice for nearly an hour and a half… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 4, 2020
10 min
Crossover Week: Natural Disasters (Potato Famine Pt. 2)
If you enjoy the true stories told in Survival, check out this episode from our series Natural Disasters: By the late 1840s, with no end in sight to the potato famine gripping Ireland and no help coming from the British government, the Irish people were left with few options. Forced to choose between dire workhouses or leaving the country, there was no easy solution to ending their hunger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 13, 2020
33 min
Crossover Week: Natural Disasters (Potato Famine Pt. 1)
If you enjoy the true stories told in Survival, check out this episode from our series Natural Disasters: In 1845, a fungus destroyed Ireland’s potato crops, leaving the Irish population without its main food source. The first months of the famine morphed into a bureaucratic nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 13, 2020
45 min
Jan Baalsrud
As a leader in the Norwegian resistance against the Nazis in the 1940s, 25-year-old Jan Baalsrud endured frostbite, gangrene, snow blindness, and starvation while evading capture after his mission was compromised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 6, 2020
57 min
Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 3
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: January 1847. Fed by the remains of their friends and family, the surviving members of the Forlorn Hope managed to get through the snow and reach civilization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 30, 2019
55 min
Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 2
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: Snowed in, and unable to get their wagons over the Sierra Nevadas, the Donner Party set up camp by Truckee Lake and waited for the winter of 1846 to pass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 30, 2019
55 min
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