Podcast: Special Collections (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Abandoned Cities
Pub date: 2019-01-26

Notes from The Listener:

Trivia and debate about the world's abandoned places, from a podcast that usually focuses on audio tours of museums and galleries. This episode is a break in format for this show — which is first broadcast on a radio station run by Brigham Young University in Utah — and sees producers bring their favourite stories of abandoned, desolate or anomalous places in to the studio to share with the host. Pompeii and Chernobyl feature, but so do some unusual legal loopholes about national parks. Varied and rich in surprising detail

Special Collections usually focuses on museums and place full of stuff, but today we'd like to prove that a lack of stuff can be just as interesting. That's right, we're talking about ghost towns. Is a place abandoned because of its remote location, because of a natural disaster, or maybe even a man-made one? Host Jeff Simpson sits down with our producers--Cole Wissinger, Sage Smiley, and Gracia Lee--to explore these unique and empty places. We explore a fascinating corner of Yellowstone National Park, Kolmanskop, Barrow AK, Centralia PA, Pompeii, Shi Cheng, Chernobyl, Pripyat and so much more. Welcome to our first episode of Special Desolations.

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