4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | An original audio drama series from the BBC World Service, Fukushima tells the story of the 2011 disaster. |
0:09.0 | At Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. |
0:12.0 | We lose the Daiichi plant. Then we lose Japan as we know it. |
0:17.0 | Listen to the series now by searching for Fukushima, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
0:24.0 | The film is on the right. |
0:29.0 | Entering the cargo elevator to reach the club. |
0:34.0 | When you're going up, you see the floors and the workers are working. |
0:38.0 | And then you hear the music going closer and closer and closer. |
0:41.0 | You get pumped up as you go up. |
0:43.0 | And then the two doors of the elevator open up and you see something that you wouldn't expect here in the heart of this industrial area. |
0:53.0 | You get into a space that's bright and colorful and the music is happy and going to a dark room where it's a bit more minimal. |
0:59.0 | Then going to the main space where it's a freaking festival. |
1:03.0 | Grand Factory is like our dreamt up Alessand Wunderland. |
1:06.0 | It's a bit like this world that we want to live in. |
1:09.0 | There's no place like Lebanon. There's no place like Beirut. |
1:12.0 | There's so much work to be done. There's so much darkness. There's so much destruction. |
1:16.0 | But it's like one of the most epic places ever. |
1:20.0 | Every night is like the last time. |
1:23.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
1:26.0 | I'm Frank McQueenie and I'm in Lebanon's capital Beirut. |
1:29.0 | I've come to one of the city's most important underground music spaces. |
1:33.0 | It's just reopened its doors almost three years on from one of the world's biggest non-nuclear explosions which destroyed a large part of the port and surrounding neighborhoods, including this venue, the Grand Factory. |
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