Hiroshima, the River Remembers is a series of interviews with people who have lived through the bombing. The voiceovers are by Yoko Brekkenridge, Yas Motoyoshi, Noriyaki Matoki, Jean Kim, Kazuko Shiba, Tomoko Fujiwara, and Yoshi Yamau. Cnonradio comes to you from CDS, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
The word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of a mushroom cloud. It’s easy to forget that it’s an actual city with a million people and a popular baseball team. In 1995, John Biewen visited the city to speak with survivors and to ask: What did the world’s first atomic bombing mean in the place where it happened?
Hearing Hiroshima is a production of Minnesota Public Radio, from American Public Media.
Photo: Selections from the 1995 tapes. Photo by John Biewen.