HPR4412: Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731

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The program starts with a brief trailer, presenting the story, before starting the full audiodrama...

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References (some):

LIANG, Jiashuo. A History of Japan’s Unit 731 and Implications for Modern Biological Warfare. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, v. 673. Atlantis Press, 2022.

PBS. The Living Weapon: Shiro Ishii. Link: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/weapon-biography-shiro-ishii. Accessed: January 2025.

RIDER, Dwight R. Japan’s Biological and Chemical Weapons Programs; War Crimes and Atrocities – Who’s Who, What’s What, Where’s Where. 1928 – 1945. 3rd ed., 2018 [“In Process” version].

Credits of audio used — in order of appearance (or “listenance”):

Kulakovka / Pixabay – Lost in Dreams (abstract chill downtempo cinematic future beats).

BBC Sound Effects – Aircraft: Beaufighters - Take off. (Bristol Beaufighter, World War II); Army: Parade Ground Manoeuvres - Platoon strolls single-file on parade ground; Weather: Snow - Blizzard - heard inside house, with banging shutters; Footsteps In Snow - Footsteps in snow, 3 men departing; Water - Filling metal bucket from pond and pouring water on to concrete.

florianreichelt / Freesound ¬– quick woosh.

Thalamus_Lab / Freesound – Vertical Noise_Chinese Folk Duo Decay.

neolein / Freesound – Mystic chinese guzheng.

BBC Sound Effects again – World War 2 - Enemy artillery (World War II actuality) - 1975 (500S); Aircraft: Beaufighters - Exterior, steep climb. (Bristol Beaufighter, World War II).

JamesFarrell_97 / Freesound – Game Theme.

Luke100000 / Freesound – turning old pages.

BBC Sound Effects – Sirens & Gunfire - World War II Air Raid Siren, German, all clear sounded.

Gvidon / Pixabay – Spinning Head.

* If you'd like the script to read (along with a few other things, like the Audacity project), you can obtain the text at the production's page on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/the-prisioner-of-unit-731-audiodrama-final

* As a post-show extra: you can listen to the producer's motivation for producing this story on ep. 4313.

hpr4313 :: Why I made a 1-episode podcast about a war story: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4313/index.html

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