RN: Documentary: A Hiroshima Story
Series: RN Documentaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:29:30
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Piece Description
On a sunny August morning in 1945, Keijiro Matsushima sat in his math class in Hiroshima. He looked out the window, saw two American bombers in the clear blue sky, and suddenly his world was torn apart. Now a retired English teacher, he fears young people today are no longer interested in his story. On a sunny June morning in 2005, Amsterdam English teacher Kevin Hogan’s 11th graders are reading a novel about Hiroshima. They are the same age Mr. Matsushima was sixty years ago. How will they react when they hear his story? This program is particularly timely around the August 6th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Transcript
“A Hiroshima Story”
produced & Presented by David Swatling
A 76 year old retired English teacher and survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima tells his story because he doubts whether kids today know anything about the event at all. But at Amsterdam’s International School, an American teacher is having his 11th grade World Literature class read Masuji Ibuse’s novel “Black Rain.”
Interviews: Keijiro Matsushima, Hiroshima survivor (Sigrid Deter)
Kevin Hogan, English teacher International School A’dam
11th Grade World Literature Class, ISA
Readings: from “Black Rain” by Masuji Ibuse (ISA students)
Music: Kohachiro Miyata, shakuhachi (Japanese flute) CD208229
SCRIPT
VOX HUMANA ID
MUSIC: Japanese Flute
TRK. 3 – from beginning
MATSUSHIMA: I’m afraid the memory of Hiroshima is being lost among younger generations, I think… Sixty years – a lo...
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