Henrietta Bredin talks to the baritone Gerald Finley about how he portrays ‘the destroyer of worlds’
At precisely 5.30 a.m. on Monday 16 July 1945 the world entered the nuclear age. The first atomic bomb exploded in a searing flash of light and a vast mushroom cloud unfurled in the skies above New Mexico.
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