A programme re-examining the Herald of Free Enterprise tragedy will be shown.

It is part of a new series called James Nesbitt: Disasters that Changed Britain, looking at a total six catastrophes over the last 60 years.

This episode, simply titled Zeebrugge, looks at the events surrounded the ferry's sinking on March 6, 1987 and the causes behind it.

It is being produced by the HISTORY TV channel and will be shown on Sky, Virgin, BT and Talk Talk from 9pm on Monday, March 26.

This episodes sets the scene of the trend of Channel hopping in the Eighties and how such a day trip led to Britain's worst maritime disaster since the Second World War.

A total 193 people died when the Townsend Thoresen ferry capsized as it was leaving Zeebrugge in Belgium to return to Dover.

All six episodes are presented by actor James Nesbitt, famous for TV shows such as Cold Feet.

The earliest disaster covered is the Munich air crash of 1958, which killed members of the Manchester United football team, and the latest is last June's Grenfell Tower fire in west London.

The others examined are the King's Cross tube station fire in 1987, the Piper Alpha oil rig platform explosion in the North Sea in July 1988 and the Paddington rail crash of 1999.

The series has narratives from journalists Donal MacIntyre, of MacIintyre Investigates and Anna Richardson of Super Shoppers.

It asks why warning signs were often ignored and how seemingly innocuous decisions, sometimes decades before, contributed to the catastrophes.

At Zeebrugge the bow doors had been left open and an inquiry judge later ruled that overall the company had a "disease of sloppiness."

In the build up to the King's Cross tragedy there had been under-investment in the tube system, an inadequate fire policy and a poorly enforced smoking ban. The fire was sparked by an unextinguished matched dropped onto an escalator.

The episode Paddington is the first being show, next Monday March 19,.again at 9pm.

Piper Alpha will be broadcast on Monday, April 2, Munich on April 9, King's Cross on April 16 and Grenfell on April 23.