Boy and Island

To commemorate the 47th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island, Andrew is interviewed by his wife Shona on a variety of topics including the reopening of T.M.I., the nuclear industry’s troublesome legacy, the Boy and Island project in relation to his other creative endeavors, the connection between the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the events at T.M.I., and more!

A provocative exploration of the Hurst family’s unlikely and little known encounter amidst the early aftermath of the accident at T.M.I. that transformed their evacuation experience into an esoteric pilgrimage in which Jim Hurst comes face to face with Jim Hurst—fleeing the danger of Three Mile Island to the mystery and salvation of another island called Vinalhaven. Woven together utilizing an esse...

A revealing and soulful interview with Eric Epstein. Eric is chairman of T.M.I.A. (Three Mile Island Alert). Founder of EFMR, a non-profit radiation monitoring group, as well as the founder of Rock the Capital, a non-partisan good government watchdog organization.

A candid and heartfelt conversation with my dear friend, Don Hossler, who worked closely with my father in the grassroots community-based organization P.A.N.E (People Against Nuclear Energy).

A brief eulogy for my late father, James Hurst, who passed on September 2, 2024.

To commemorate the 45th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island, I present a very special interview with my sister Leigh Hurst!! In this impromptu and revealing discussion we share memories and compare notes on our personal experiences from the day of the accident 45 years ago and its aftermath to the present day. We cover in length the far reaching impact of our parent’s Anne and Jim’s i...

An audio exploration of some profound, irreverent, unforgettable and unforgivable events of 2023 that continue to forcibly shape the psychic landscape of ’24 and beyond. Fragments of music by some of the artists we lost last year have been interwoven throughout this episode to pay tribute to their brilliance and invite their spiritual energy to invigorate and enrich the context of the information...

After a routine medical procedure goes awry, sending his father Jim into a months-long health crisis, Hurst embarks on an esoteric ponderance on the nature of errors that includes the zen wisdom of composer John Cage, Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies,” the roving spirituality of walking, the pleasures and terrors of misunderstood song lyrics, the tragic convergence of mechanical and human error at...

In honor of Women's History Month, this episode contains a very special interview with my mother, Anne Hurst in which we reflect on the 44th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island with a revealing and heartfelt discussion on the trials and tribulations of caregiving amidst a nuclear catastrophe, the true spirit of activism and much more!

In this final part of Episode 2, the question; "How did Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant wind up in my backyard?" is finally answered through ruminations on violence as spectacle, the brilliant and turbulent early history of Radioactivity, from its inspired discovery at the dawn of the 20th century, to its weaponization by the U.S. Military in World War 2, and much, much more!

In this episode, Hurst weighs in on Meltdown the Netflix documentary on Three Mile Island, and continues his deep dive into Deja Vu and its ubiquitous presence in the modern popular psyche through revealing personal insights on The China Syndrome movie, his disturbing eyewitness account of the attacks on 9/11, the concept of Militainment, "wild history" and more.

In Part 3 of this multipart episode, Hurst continues to explore the question, “how did the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant wind up in my back yard?” Topics include the deception of photography, DADA’s transformation into surrealism, and Deja Vu on a mass scale in the turbulent years between WWI and WWII.

Hurst offers a candid glimpse into his mindscape during the 2021 Christmas and New Year holiday season. Including revealing audio snapshots of impromptu explorations of psychogeographic sites from his youth as well as updates on his father James’ current health struggles.

Amidst the festivities of the Thanksgiving holiday, Hurst ponders the connective tissues that bring people together. Topics include: the intriguing circumstances that link Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered King Tut’s tomb and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father” of the atomic bomb; the international communion of savagery that was World War I; and the eclectic assortment of artists and...

The Boy and Island Podcast is back with an exciting announcement!

In part 1 of this 3 part episode, Hurst embarks on a journey that traces the mystical impulses and political intrigue that lurks within the technological discoveries that eventually led to the existence of the domestic use of the atom, embodied by nuclear power plants such as Three Mile Island.

In this episode Hurst commemorates the 42nd anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island, with thoughts on rethinking victimhood, the past and future legacy of the nuclear power industry, the psychological similarities between the pandemic lockdown and his experiences during the TMI evacuation, and more! For more on Boy and Island, visit www.boyandisland.com

Introducing the Boy and Island podcast, a companion to the forthcoming book by Andrew Hurst. This podcast follows Andrew's creative dissection of the tragic events that occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, and retells the narrative from an insider's perspective.