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Brady Heywood Podcast

by Sean Brady
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  • Announcement: The Brady Heywood Podcast is coming back

    August 25, 2026 · 2 min

    The Brady Heywood Podcast is coming back and the first episode drops on Tuesday 3 November. Instead of standalone episodes, we'll be doing limited series' where we cover one story or topic across several episode released weekly. The first…

  • Introducing 'Simplifying Complexity'

    November 21, 2022 · 25 min

    As you can tell by the title of this episode this isn’t a normal episode of The Brady Heywood Podcast. In today’s episode we introduce you to a new show that we’ve been working on called Simplifying Complexity, a podcast all about…

  • Miami Bridge Failure - Part 3

    August 31, 2021 · 33 min

    In today's episode, we bring to a close our three-part series on the collapse of a pedestrian bridge in Miami, Florida, in 2018. In part one, you heard about the cracks in the bridge and how nothing was done about them. And in part two…

  • Miami Bridge Failure - Part 2

    July 31, 2021 · 20 min

    Today's episode is the second of a three-part series on the 2018 collapse of the International University Pedestrian Bridge in Miami, Florida. In our last episode, you heard how a pedestrian bridge under construction at the Florida…

  • Miami Bridge Failure - Part 1

    June 30, 2021 · 26 min

    Today's episode is the first of a three-part series about the 2018 collapse of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge in Miami, Florida. In this part, you'll hear how the signals which could have prevented the collapse of…

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  • The Brady Review

    May 31, 2021 · 20 min

    Today's episode is a little different. It explores 'The Brady Review', a report Brady Heywood undertook on the mining and quarrying industry in Queensland, Australia. From January 2000 until the end of July 2019, 47 people lost their…

  • The Pike River Mine Disaster - Part 3

    April 30, 2021 · 35 min

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains vivid descriptions of how the miners, who lost their lives in the disaster, died. Listener discretion is advised.   In this final episode of our three-part series on the Pike River Mine disaster, we…

  • The Pike River Mine Disaster - Part 2

    March 31, 2021 · 27 min

    In part one of this three-part series on the Pike River mine disaster, you heard what took place in the minutes, hours and days following the methane explosion at the mine. In this episode, we’ll step back and look at the history of the…

  • The Pike River Mine Disaster - Part 1

    February 28, 2021 · 26 min

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains vivid descriptions of the moments that the disaster occurred. Listener discretion is advised.   On the 19th of November 2010, New Zealand experienced one of its worst mining disasters when there was…

  • The 1976 Montreal Olympics Financial Debacle

    January 31, 2021 · 22 min

    It's 1970, and the mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, declares that the 1976 Montreal Games will be self-financing.  In his view, these games can no more have a deficit "...than a man can have a baby". In fact, he thinks the real problem…

  • The I-90 Tunnel Collapse

    December 31, 2020 · 21 min

    In this episode, we head to Boston. The 'Big Dig' was a road and tunnel construction project designed to solve Boston's congestion problems. With the final project cost exceeding $14 billion USD, this megaproject took 20 years to…

  • Introducing 'Saving Apollo 13'

    April 13, 2020 · 6 min

    In this short podcast we discuss the re-release of our Apollo 13 Series as Saving Apollo 13. We also talk about the subject of the next more 'traditional' Brady Heywood Podcast Episode. Saving Apollo 13 is available on iTunes via the link…

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About the show

A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.