In 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power plant on the east coast of Japan was struck by a tsunami.

It triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Shinobu.

We are in a nuclear emergency!

Fukushima, a new audio drama series from the BBC World Service,

tells the story of how the disaster unfolded and of those living with its aftermath.

The radiation is here, it's everywhere.

The search for Fukushima, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

Just get under.

Just come into a four-story apartment block that's being used as a safe house for defected soldiers from the mere Marmila tree.

We've had to come here at night to avoid attracting too much attention.

It's just across the border from Myanmar, in neighbouring Thailand.

In one of the tiny apartments, a group of former soldiers are sitting cross-legged on the floor.

They're here illegally and in hiding, so we're not using their names.

The youngest who's now 19, joined the military when he was just 15 years old.

I admire the military, so I joined them.

What attracted me was that the military is the only armed force that is protecting the country.

I joined it because I like that.

But everything changed for him and the country when General Min Ang Line seized power in a coup in February 2021.

Soldiers like him were ordered to crush the mass people's uprising, demanding democracy.

They were bullying people who protested, they destroyed people's homes.

I could see that people deeply hated the military. That's why I started planning to leave.

Did you hear how people hated the military? Did you hear what they were calling soldiers?

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