Popular Reviews of Disaster Area

Amazing format, and the presenters personality really imposes on the listener. Can only bare to listen to it occasionally. Asinine in the extreme.

The research and scripts are great. Jennifer is very knowledgeable and presents the information well. However, the political tangents and personal matters are really off-putting. When a podcast is based on serious matter, I prefer them to be fact focused.

I thought really carefully about the rating and I'm sorry to settle on one star. The content is really carefully researched, topics selected are great, and the regularity and punctuality are to be admired. However, despite that I simply cannot listen. I've really tried but am driven to distraction by the presenter. As another reviewer rightly pointed out, politics often appears entirely inappropriately and out of context. The same for personal information that has, at times, made me cringe to the extreme. Although I think the podcast is broadly scripted, there appear to be weird interludes so bizarre that they can't possibly be part of the script. What I look for in a podcast on a topic like this is a total focus on the facts. The content should be focused, and the presenter should not allow it to become self referential or venture to much into the subjective. I am desperate for a podcast on disasters that is professional and sensitive and it pains me that this podcast covers so many incidents but is so painful to listen to. I hope that my explanation, how ever difficult to read, offers the level of detail that such a low rating deserves.

While I love her content. I dislike how often she needs to interject politics into each episode. I listen to podcasts for entertainment value as well as education. That said having her constantly airing her dislike of conservative values is disheartening. She also feels the need to force feed liberal views on the listeners. I give up.

Well researched. Long time fan

So I found this podcast while listening to another about the Norway shooter and wanted to hear what happen at Christchurch New Zealand. Episode 198 is good from a informative standpoint up until about the 1 hour mark at this point it becomes a opinion piece about gun control in America. The host pushes her political views on the listener but not in a funny way like "lions led by donkeys" and it's annoying to say the least.

Makes for pretty good listening... If not a little macabre and grim. Listened to the Chernobyl series and although I found it relatively well researched, some of the details were a little off and found the host kept drifting off on a tangent of pointless information. Could've been made better by sticking to the facts of the case rather than conveying who used to babysit the characters involved and their social or domestic habits. Would've made it a little less drawn out and the reason I didn't rate it 5 stars.

Jennifer does a great job investigating and producing a very interesting podcast. I have listened to all the episodes and enjoyed them.

interesting and easy to listen to my new fav podcast i’m gonna binge all the episodes :)

Excellently researched and darkly engrossing. A fascinating look into some of history's most fascinating forgotten tragedies. Only criticism would be that some episodes could use an editor to polish things up, but nevertheless still a wonderful show.

If podcast host would read straight from her extremely well researched, highly interesting script and cut out all of the annoying person tangents and diatribes this would be an A+ podcast, fully four stars. Unfortunately this is not the case. She absolutely sabotages her own efforts by rambling on & on every episode.

An awesome podcast if you're interested in disasters. I spend a lot of time driving in my car and have probably listened to 60 episodes so far and enjoy the personal spin she puts on all of them.

I love true crime and disaster podcasts but this one is hard to listen to. I've only listened to the first 10 episodes, but her lip smacking is too much. It's like, sitting at the table to eat and listening to others chewing with their mouth open. I was hoping she'd stop after reading others complain about this too, but I can't stick around waiting for that time.