The burning and the haunting: how for some the nightmare of Hiroshima will never end

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Survivors describe the horrors of August 6 1945 and the scars that remain. Hear from Akiko Takakura. Nobody who survived Hiroshima 60 years ago today was closer to the explosion than Mrs Takakura, and she holds a special place in a group of "hibakusha" - the atomic people -- Rees

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