Voices From Chornobyl

04/26/2022

36 years. Today marks 36 years since the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant.
We stopped producing our live adaptation of Svetlana Alexievich's book in 2011 and eight years later the HBO series brought Chernobyl to a much wider audience.
With everything happening in Ukraine right now, I urge you to read some of Alexievich's other works. She spends years speaking to citizens there, chronicling their real words. It is not light by any means, but these books will give you insight into Ukraine's history and their societal, cultural lives.

Read more about Last Witnesses: An Oral History Of The Children Of World War Ii and other books by Svetlana Alexievich

07/25/2019

07/08/2019

There were many stories that touched people in our adaptation. Different stories reached different people.
The poodle scene always hit them.
"We were digging ditches and dumping all of the animals’ bodies into it. One day….it was just an ordinary ditch, a deep one. Not regulation. We dumped all of the animals out of the trunk into the hole, and this little poodle climbed out. No one had a bullet left. Not one bullet. We pushed him back into the hole and covered it with dirt. I still feel bad about it."

The offspring of abandoned pets in the nuclear exclusion zone are receiving veterinary help.

06/10/2019

Chernobyl is the hottest show of the summer. Now you can download and learn from all of Craig Mazin's screenplays.

05/26/2019

I Need HBO Just So I Can Watch the New Chernobyl Series.

It's possibly the most on-brand I can get to only want HBO because of their new Chernobyl documentary. 

05/06/2019

New series Chernobyl sheds light on one of the world’s worst nuclear incidents — ranked equal with Fukushima in Japan, in 2011. JONATHAN MAYO reveals how it took place minute by minute.

03/03/2019

INSPIRATIONAL Haslemere resident Victor Mizzi OBE – who founded the ground-breaking rescue charity Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline – has died aged 84.

01/04/2019

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06/09/2016

"To mark the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster on April 26th 1986 Dublin born writer Darragh McKeown reads from his powerful new novel "All ...

04/26/2016

The new structure will contain the reactor for at least a century.

04/09/2016

Starting today, we'll tweet the entire script of VOICES FROM CHORNOBYL to commemorate the accident. You can read on our Twitter account:

The latest Tweets from VoicesChornobyl (). Unite and remember. Through blogs, play readings and community, we raise awareness of the Chernobyl disaster around the world. Los Angeles, CA

04/09/2016

Long after the radiation that blanketed Europe dispersed, herders in Norway are living with the effects of the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history.