The Chernobyl Fallout

I'm not sure it would have been a good idea to do an episode on that sort of thing. There's all sorts of stuff about the Chernobyl fallout and how it's affected the surrounding countryside. That is like really disquieting in quite interesting ways. Also, the Red Zone in France. It's basically an area where there's still just enough unexploded munitions from one of the world wars that you can't go there. I often say to people that horror has never really got me the best horror series I've ever seen wasn't a horror series. And it was that Chernobyl series that grabs me in a way that more fantastical horror never will war.

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