The spine-chilling drama film Threads, famed for its horrifying depiction of a nuclear apocalypse, is scheduled for a rare airing on the BBC this evening (Wednesday 9 October). First broadcast in 1984 ...
Thirty-five years ago this week, the BBC aired Threads, one of the most searing movies about nuclear war in TV history. The following year, the docu-drama aired on TBS and became, at the time, the ...
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BBC film Threads was hailed as one of the most iconic films of the 1980s as it dramatised a nuclear war and its effects on Britain, specifically Sheffield. And while the film creators did their best ...
A television drama about a fictional nuclear attack on the city of Sheffield had a profound effect on many who watched it in the 1980s. Now it has aired once again, we spoke to some first and ...
Back in 1984 there was one drama that had everyone talking and quaking in their boots in equal measure and that show, Threads, will air again on Wednesday night, for only the fourth time ever. Feature ...
40 years ago, a BBC film showing the grim reality of a post-nuclear world terrified a generation. Jude Rogers meets its cast and crew to unravel why it still haunts so many today. It was a film that ...
A whole new generation of viewers are set to be introduced to what has been labelled the 'most disturbing TV drama of all time' as Threads is repeated on Wednesday night. When it first aired back in ...