The Road To Now

For my second appearance on The Road to Now podcast, I joined Ben Sawyer and Philippa Hetherington to talk about the good, the bad, and the historically ugly of Netflix’s recent drama-cum-documentary, The Last Czars. We also talk about the far more successful Chernobyl from HBO – a haunting testament to only half-remembered events that changed the world forever.

Here’s the original description from RTN:

The Netflix series The Last Czars and HBO’s Chernobyl have (in very different ways) brought Russian & Soviet history to televisions across the world. In this episode, Ben sits down with fellow Russian historians Philippa Hetherington and Jonathan Waterlow to discuss their opinions on the two series, what they think they got right, and ways that producers and scholars might benefit most from collaboration on future projects. Philippa, who is a featured scholar in The Last Czars, shares her experience being interviewed, her impression of the show after seeing it, and her work to correct historical errors that viewers identified after release.