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Revisiting Threads 40 years on: How a BBC classic explored the chilling reality of nuclear war
Forty years ago this weekend, BBC Two screened a film that sent shockwaves nationwide. Threads was a drama documentary made by director Mick Jackson and Kes writer Barry Hines that showed the effects of a nuclear bomb on a familiar city. The story spools out from two Sheffield families, caught up in the drama of an unexpected pregnancy. Around them, radio, television and print news speak of a conflict building overseas. This ramps up slowly, then quickly, and after 47 minutes the unthinkable happens. But rather than the film ending with a bomb, it continues, showing what could happen to the people left behind. My documentary Re

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