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A tsunami hits the Japanese nuclear plant. A seven-part drama. Season 1: Fall of the Shah

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A tsunami hits the Japanese nuclear plant. A seven-part drama.
Season 1: Fall of the Shah
A tale of power, betrayal and fear. A nine-part drama.

Season 1: Fall of the Shah
A tale of power, betrayal and fear. Taking you back to the 1970s, when the Iranian Revolution would change the world forever.  A nine-part drama.

Season 2: Fukushima
A tsunami hits the Japanese nuclear plant. The disaster told in a seven-part drama. As the energy company and politicians in Tokyo lose control, the reactors become unstable and a “suicide squad” of older workers is sent inside. This drama follows the heroes who fight to contain the disaster and those whose mistakes led Japan to catastrophe. Years later, some seek atonement.

Fukushima Cast:
Suto: Togo Igawa
Akiko: Ami Okumura Jones
Yoshida: Eiji Mahara
Saito: Sadao Ueda
Ito: Matt McCooey
Shimada: Akira Koieyama
Narrator: Romola Garai
Reporter: Kevin Shen
Reporter: Naoko Mori 
Worker: Nino Furuhata
Written by Adrian Penketh
Sound design is by Peter Ringrose
Produced by Toby Swift and Sasha Yevtushenko
Commissioned by Simon Pitts for BBC World Service.

Fall of the Shah: 9. God’s government

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Fukushima: Fall of the Shah: Fall of the Shah: 2. Black Friday

Fall of the Shah: 2. Black Friday

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Fall of the Shah

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Protesters take to the streets. The Shah mobilises his army. #FalloftheShah

Protesters take to the streets, inspired by exiled religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. The Shah mobilises his army. #FalloftheShah

Protesters take to the streets, inspired by exiled religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. The Shah mobilises his army. Episode two of the drama. #FalloftheShah

Fukushima: Fall of the Shah

The thrilling story of the Iranian Revolution in the streets and palaces of a fiery Tehran

In a new nine-part drama podcast and radio series, Fall Of The Shah tracks the downfall of the Shah of Iran in the late 1970s and the rise of a forceful new Islamic Republic.
 
Launching at the time of the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Revolution in Iran, this visceral epic drama is seen from a range of vantage points: within the Shah’s royal circle; in the torturers’ prison; on the bloody streets of Tehran; at the heart of Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolutionary leadership; in the confused reactions within the American Embassy - and in the White House itself. 
 
Fall Of The Shah is a thrilling and panoramic account of a revolution whose effects still reverberate around the world.
 
It is created by the acclaimed writer Steve Waters and award-winning producer Marc Beeby for BBC World Service.

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