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Radio 5 Live,13 Jun 2019,19 mins

Dark Tourism: Would you go on holiday to Chernobyl?

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Would you go on holiday to Chernobyl? How about the Killing Fields of Cambodia? Maybe a trip to the gift shop run by the terrorist group Hezbollah? Well it appears dark tourism is on the rise – tour operators have revealed a spike in bookings to visit the Ukrainian power plant after HBO’s Chernobyl series. But why on earth would anybody want to go? 5 Live's Sarah Brett speaks to comedian, author and self-confessed dark tourist Dom Joly, who has indeed been on holiday to all those places.

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