Pesky Radio Russians, Defying Marauding Robots
Rachel SaltzFebruary 12, 2012: In “Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War,” an imaginative riff on atomic age fears (have they ever gone away?) robots wiped out the United States in 1959, killing its people and leaving it unfit for habitation. But sometime in the middle of the 21st century a small outpost of Soviet Free Radio in Irkutsk keeps bits of American culture alive, broadcasting a play about two Iowa brothers, Samuel and Alasdair, and their lives before the robot holocaust.
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