On this week’s episode, Francesca Peacock spoke to Nick Blackburn about his debut work The Reactor — a memoir and meditation on the workings of grief. From Chernobyl to Hamlet, and Bob Dylan to Joni Mitchell, The Reactor is raw and all-encompassing.
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