Since I wrote a bit about nuclear contamination here in San Francisco and mentioned the work of Kate Brown on nuclear history and politics, I figured I’d repost the great interview that Evgenia and Eileen Jones did with Kate Brown a few years back — back when Evgenia still cohosted Filmsuck.
Eileen and Evgenia talked to Brown about her revisionist history of Chernobyl — Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. They also talk about popular fictional portrayals of the disaster, including the HBO series Chernobyl, and about how they stack up against what actually happened. The ep was originally broadcast on March 20, 2020.
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—Yasha Levine
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Filmsuck archives: Chernobyl with Kate Brown