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Michael Caine: Heroes

By: Michael Caine
Narrated by: Michael Caine
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  • Summary

  • Sir Michael Caine knows a lot about heroes. Fearless people who face danger and adversity head on, using their courage and strength to save the lives of others and show true bravery when the odds are stacked against them.

    Caine explores exceptional true stories of personal strength and gets to know the real people behind the headlines. Powerful, inspirational and life changing, no one ever said being a hero was easy.
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  • Ep 1: Piper Alpha: The Accident That Could Never Happen

    Ep 1: Piper Alpha: The Accident That Could Never Happen
    Dec 9 2021

    Michael Caine starts the series with a tragedy involving hundreds of men stationed on the Piper Alpha oil rig in the cold and forbidding waters of the North Sea. It was an accident that went beyond anyone's worst nightmares.

    In 1988, the doomed oil rig exploded, sparking gas and oil fires that tore through the giant structure. Michael follows the stories of the brave men, who in the face of a catastrophic disaster, worked fearlessly to rescue and save the lives of those on the burning rig and in the freezing North Sea.
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    47 mins
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  • Ep 2: Anna Politkovskaya: Speaking Truth to Power

    Ep 2: Anna Politkovskaya: Speaking Truth to Power
    Dec 9 2021

    Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and criticism of Vladimir Putin.

    Despite constant death threats, imprisonment and even a mock execution, Anna worked tirelessly to expose human rights abuses committed by her own state and the Chechen leaders. Michael explores Anna’s bravery, unbreakable spirit and her refusal to stop reporting, despite knowing the potential consequences. She was assassinated in 2006, paying the ultimate price for her work in speaking truth to power.
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  • Ep 3: 33 Chilean Miners

    Ep 3: 33 Chilean Miners
    Dec 9 2021

    Michael tells the inside story of the heroic efforts to rescue the 33 Chilean miners left trapped and cut off hundreds of feet underground in the 2010 mining accident in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

    With international support from organisations around the world, including NASA, and with the backing of the Chilean President, it’s a desperate race against time to reach the miners alive and bring them back safely to the surface and to reunite them with their distraught families.
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Great podcast

This podcast is my favourite Michael Caine Podcast since Heist. It tells the stories about different heroes. I must recommend it.

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Could.listen to Sir Michael all day ....

A great podcast to remind us of the every day heroes out there. Hopefully there will be another series!

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Excellent and we'll narrated

I listened to another audiobook narrated by Michael Caine. It was a similar type in that it was a series of connected episodes, although the stories were different. His approach in this one is the same in that he introduces and does a little voice over, but most of the stories are taken up with witnesses and participants of the time being interviewed.

Each episode is well constructed, detailed enough without being bloated, salient, clear and interesting. I would listen to the same again with a different set of stories in the same vein. A very good listen.

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Inspirational!

These stories reflect the real people we should look up to in life!

Through no choice of their own all these people were thrown into circumstance that demanded a huge amount from them, but they all stepped up to the mark and saved many lives in the process.

There wasn't one episode that wasn't an emotional rollercoaster.

People like these deserve every ounce of respect and admiration they're given - thank you all!

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Dramatic and Realistic

It starts off with the Piper Alpha tragedy so really heartbreaking. The school shooter episode actually made me cry but I'm a retired teacher so it hit home. Very moving

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EXCELLENT - EVEN BETTER THAN EXPECTED

As a subject that I have a little experience in, due to work and psychology studies, I was intrigues by this title. I had expected the brilliant delivery by Sir Michael and I was not disappointed - he is truly brilliant as a performer and so very engaging. The script flows and ties the aspects of the story together extremely well and is delivered beautifully. The stories and subjects are similarly very well selected and cleverly avoid the more obvious tales of martial heroism (military, police emergency services etc) in favour of some less obvious but amazing ones.
If I have one complaint it is that I would love there to be more episodes in the series - it really is that good.

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Interesting and inspiring

Although each story is about a difficult or scary subject, all the while listening, you feel inspired and hopeful. Which is just an added bonus to Michael Cain’s delivery.

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Fascinating

Very interesting to hear the circumstances and stories behind the headlines of these events. Inspiring.

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Excellent end to the series

Michael Caine is a superb narrator and I have listened to several of the podcasts and stories he has voiced. This Heroes series was very interesting and at times moving.

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interesting

I enjoyed the podcast and especially being read by Michael Caine. just enough to keep me interested.

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