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The History Podcast, Half-Life, 8. A Fracture

The History Podcast

Half-Life

8. A Fracture

May 14, 2025

30 minutes

Available for over a year

In this final episode, Joe follows the opening of a public memorial and engages with a private reckoning.

Written and presented by Joe Dunthorne (based on his book Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance)

Produced by Eleanor McDowall

Music by Jeremy Warmsley

Mixing engineer, Mike Woolley

Translator in Berlin: sca Schweiger

Recordings of the memorial unveiling: Phoebe McIndoe

Story consultant, Sarah Geis

Executive producer, Alan Hall

Commissioning editor, Daniel Clarke

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4