Please Remain Calm

The Chernobyl Podcast

HBO

History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Peter Sagal and Craig Mazin discuss the second episode of Chernobyl. With untold millions at risk after the explosion, nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) makes a desperate attempt to reach Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) and warn him about the threat of a second explosion that could devastate the continent. Mazin sheds light on the real-life scientists who inspired the composite character Khomyuk and demystifies how nuclear radiation works. He also gives context about seemingly small details, like the poem being read on the radio, and we get more surprising answers from Sagal's "really?" questions. The Chernobyl Podcast is produced by HBO in conjunction with Pineapple Street Media. Original music by Kaan Erbay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you remember Leuscha?
0:03.0	The roads are my life.
0:04.0	No, I believe that the Russia we fight for is not the dull town where I lived at a loss.
0:10.0	But those country tracks that our ancestors followed, the graves where they lie with the old Russian cross.
0:18.0	I feel that for me it was countryside Russia.
0:23.0	That first made me feel I must truly belong to the tedious miles between village and village.
0:28.0	The tears of the widow, the women said song.
0:34.0	By old Russian practice, mere fire and destruction are all we abandoned behind us in war.
0:42.0	We see alongside us the deaths of our comrades.
0:45.0	By old Russian practice, the breast to the fore.
0:50.0	Aaliyosha, till now we've been spared by the bullets.
0:53.0	But when, for the third time my life seemed to end.
0:58.0	I yet still felt proud of the dearest of countries.
1:02.0	The great bitter land I was born to defend.
1:15.0	Welcome to the Chernobyl podcast.
1:17.0	This is Peter Segal.
1:18.0	This is a podcast about the mini-series Chernobyl being broadcast on HBO and Sky.
1:25.0	Today we are talking about episode two titled Please Remain Calm.
1:29.0	We are here again with the show's creator, producer and writer Craig Mason.
1:34.0	Good to be back.
1:35.0	It's always a pleasure to see you here far, far away from the events you wrote about.
1:41.0	To recap, the end of last episode, the image we were left with was a bird falling from the sky, presumably because of the radiation pouring out of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor,
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