Spacebridge 3 – A Live Studio Audience
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Soviet Union faces a series of funerals for elderly heads of state; meanwhile the nation falls in love with a “citizen diplomat” from America, a young girl. Popular daytime TV host Phil Donahue agrees to co-host a spacebridge with Vladimir Pozner, a multi-lingual Soviet known for expounding his government’s views on US TV. Soviet and American audiences argue about everything from geopolitics to sex in the resulting “citizen summits,” which rivet participants but also put many careers on the line.
Spacebridge is a production of Showcase from PRX’s Radiotopia with additional funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Our Russian content partner is the history site Arzamas.Academy.
Find out more at radiotopia.fm/showcase.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia Presents, from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.7 | Four decades ago, splitting the atmosphere, humans learn in effect on the unleash on Earth the raging fires of the sun. |
| 0:16.7 | Today, the world's nuclear arsenals hold the explosive power of over one million Hiroshima's. |
| 0:23.6 | They are expanding by one thousand wars. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm talking about nuclear war. |
| 0:31.6 | A nuclear war. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:38.3 | War. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm talking about nuclear war. |
| 0:42.3 | Nuclear war. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm a nuclear. |
| 0:45.3 | I was worried about nation of war. |
| 0:47.3 | Talking. |
| 0:48.3 | Nuclear war. |
| 0:49.3 | Nuclear war. |
| 0:50.3 | Nuclear war. |
| 0:51.3 | Talking. |
| 0:53.3 | Somebody just took a good. Yeah. nuclear war yeah |
| 0:57.0 | yeah |
| 0:59.0 | I was worried about |
| 1:03.0 | nuclear war |
| 1:04.0 | nuclear war |
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