The Atom & Us
Insights & ideas from across the spectrum of atomic history & culture, inspired by the journey of making & releasing the international feature documentary 'The Atom: A Love Affair'. vickilesley.substack.com
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As promised in my interview post with Yuki Miyamoto to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, I’ve recorded some extracts from the following book, which I purchased from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum when I visited in 2004.
Please take care listening as these testimonies feature graphic and extremely distressing descriptions. But the first-hand memories are vital for the world to hear - and even more so as...
It’s been a little while but I’m back with another video book report for your delectation and this time I’m looking at Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium by Lucy Jane Santos, published by Icon Books in the UK and Pegasus books in the US. It’s still a pretty new book - it came out in hardback last year and the paperback version is out at the end of this month (July 2025).
You can get it from Bookshop in the UK here, and i...
This is a deep, deep dive into the true £££ numbers behind my independent feature documentary, 'The Atom: A Love Affair' released in the UK in 2020 - breaking down exactly how much it cost to make that film, how much money I raised up front and how much income the film has made since it was released.
You can find the full written version of the piece at https://open.substack.com/pub/vickilesley/p/i-sold-my-film-around-the-world-but-...
Welcome back gang. Trying something a little different today.
After experimenting for the first time with Substack video last week, sharing a short animated film from my archives as a producer…
…I’ve decided to step completely out of my comfort zone by recording myself actually talking to camera for you. And here it is!
The prompt for this was that I finished reading a wonderfully vivid, impressionistic atomic memoir - about a 1980s ...
Hello there friends,
I hope you’ve had a good week and that you enjoyed reading my interview with Cornelius Holtorf. If you didn’t get a chance to check it out yet, here’s the link again:
As well as personal memories from around the time of the Chernobyl disaster (which had a particularly profound social impact in Germany, where Cornelius is from), it’s packed with ideas and insights from his work as an archaeologist into the monumen...
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