Can A Place Still Be Home Even After Becoming Toxic?
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Friday, October 21, 2016
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Director Holly Morris speaking at TED Global in 2013.
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Part 6 of the TED Radio Hour episode Toxic
About Holly Morris's TED Talk
Even thirty years after the devastating nuclear accident in Chernobyl, there are still people who call the place home. Filmmaker Holly Morris tells the stories of the mostly elderly women who decided to stay despite the toxicity.
About Holly Morris
Holly Morris is a writer, producer and director. She is the author of Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine and writer and director of its companion PBS documentary series. A former National Geographic Adventure columnist and essayist, Morris is also a contributor to The New York Times, among other publications.
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