Reel History, the podcast exploring the History within pop culture, and then decide if the property is REAL History or REEL History.
Reel History’s Pilot Episode where Hugh and Jenna introduce themselves while looking at the 2019 Award-winning HBO/Sky Mini-series Chernobyl starring an ensemble cast Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, and Emily Watson, directed by Johan Renck and created and written by Craig Mazin
The five-episode series based around the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the unprecedented clean-up efforts that followed. Hugh and Jenna discuss the incident, the role of the Soviet system on what happened, what was the impact of a series being made by a Western perspective, Hugh’s experience living in Europe during the period, and Jenna struggles with Russian words.
Recorded August 2019
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