Hello!

This podcast episode is all about Chernobyl. It's an episode I've had pencilled in to do for quite some time, if in part because I went there in 2014, and never wrote anything about my visit at the time so I felt I ought to, you know, get round to it at some point. I even mentioned this in a podcast I did last year, Back In The USSR. Didn't do it then either, because, and I quote, "I think if I did it would make the pod much longer than I'd intended. In any case it probably deserves its own discussion." I guess this is that discussion.

Topics covered on this podcast include: * I'm leaving Glasgow * The dead railway station at IBM Halt * A brief history of the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl * What I was doing in 1986 * Why I wanted to visit (and why I wasn't barefoot) * Visit to the Power Plant * Walking through the ruined town of Pripyat * Health and Safety in a Nuclear Fallout Zone * The Duga-1 Radar Array and the Russian Woodpecker * Chernobyl City and the people who stayed

Contributions in this episode come from: Helen Matthews, Jane Spurin, and Jess Harling

A PDF transcript of this episode is available.

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Until next time, bye for now. :)