[A travel and history documentary]
It’s October 2019 and we're visiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the Ukraine. We'll spend two days exploring the zone with a small group of tourists and a guide and we'll stay overnight inside the exclusion zone, in Chernobyl’s only functioning hotel. This year the exclusion zone has received a surge in visitors following the popular HBO TV drama series starring Jared Harris. That series took an in-depth look into what exactly happened the night of the disaster and the events in the immediate aftermath.
In this podcast we will focus much more on the zone as it is today, its most intriguing sites and its recently declassified secret origin. So come with us as we explore what was once, the most dangerous place on earth.
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Written and produced by John Roche.
Music score and sound mixing by Drembot.
Very special thanks to our tour guide*
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
*For information about the guide and tour company we used
contact us here: Email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com. Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
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Also if you liked the music from this episode, our composer Drembot has a new album available now on
Spotify: Adult Lessons by Drembot: https://open.spotify.com/album/2taNob1ckNSK1rVOYQMoGE?si=uDNAeyt8RwyaJj1oAphSow
@iamdrembot
Full transcript for this episode available here: https://medium.com/@mrjohnroche_42475/yarn-17-chernobyl-29f8616a8221
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