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This is Hell! airs a ‘Gulf Coast Special’ Saturday, August 28, 2010, on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

We played interviews from five years ago when we originally covered Katrina, a couple follow-up interviews from a year later, and two interviews we did recently on the ongoing BP disaster in the Gulf.

The interviews we played were:

• From September 10, 2005, historian Stephen Zunes talks “Hurricane Katrina and the War in Iraq.”
• From September 17, 2005, Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, discusses oil company profiteering.
• From October 1, 2005, Beth Daley, director of communication at the Project On Government Oversight, dissects ‘Katrina cronyism.’
• From February 18, 2006, Michael Dawson, John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, looks at “Racial Attitudes and the Katrina Disaster.”
• From December 16, 2006, media critic Neil deMause, describes “Katrina’s Vanishing Victims” and how the media forgot the ‘rediscovered’ poor.
• From June 5, 2010, author and filmmaker Julia Whitty reports on the BP disaster live from the Gulf Coast.
• From August 7, oceanography biologist Dr. Edwin Cake tells us what’s really going on beneath the surface of the BP oil disaster.