I will watch this. I have just finished reading ‘Chernobyl Prayer’ – someone else mentioned it above. It’s the most moving book I’ve ever read, drawing on testimony from a wide range of people affected by the incident. I just hadn’t understood the enormity of the physical, environmental, social, psychological, biological, political (I could go on) impacts of the Chernobyl explosion.
Like someone else said, it’s an event that I so clearly recall hearing of. Those TV images of the poor sods clearing the debris off the roof were seared into my childhood brain. Unlucky, fatalistic, vodka-fuelled heroes who, though no one had the decency to tell them, knew they faced a certain awful death as a result of their actions. The horrible complacency and cynical manipulation of information that surrounded the crisis only amplifies the debt of gratitude I feel towards those brave people.
