Get your childhood trauma ready.... BBC to show Threads again.

[Flibster]

‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on

Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984

www.theguardian.com

Coming to BBC Four in October. Perfect for Halloween.

 

[VincentHanna]

It is indeed horrific, I can't remember how old I was when I watched it, but it's so grim.

 

[Flibster]

It is indeed horrific, I can't remember how old I was when I watched it, but it's so grim.

I know it's now rated as a 15, but I'm pretty sure I was shown it in school when I was 10 or so. One of the old "Today we're going to watch a film instead" lessons, and in gets pushed a trolley with a TV and vhs on it. Normally it's was YAY! But that time, it was Threads....

 

[VincentHanna]

I think I must have seen it in 2003 or 2005 when BBC repeated it.

I can't imagine randomly watching BBC 4 when I was 21 though.

 

[Bubo]

Double Bill with Ghostwatch?

 

[MookJong]

I actually think the BBCs sister QED documentary is far worse. Well worth a watch if you have never seen it.

 

[Converge]

I know it's now rated as a 15, but I'm pretty sure I was shown it in school when I was 10 or so. One of the old "Today we're going to watch a film instead" lessons, and in gets pushed a trolley with a TV and vhs on it. Normally it's was YAY! But that time, it was Threads....

Ah, I remember that experience at primary school. Sitting down on the floor and out comes the TV, where they showed various videos of all the ways you can die by walking on railway tracks, or going into electricity substations etc. Don’t think we got treated to Threads however!

Those were the days!

 

[Mr Badger]

Finally something to brighten up the family viewing schedule on Christmas afternoon.

 

[SPG]

Decided when watched it at school no way I am living through that and just topping myself. Same rule applies

 

[Flibster]

Decided when watched it at school no way I am living through that and just topping myself. Same rule applies

C'mon.... Sheffield's not that bad.

 

[Mr Badger]

C'mon.... Sheffield's not that bad.

No, he means the next time Threads comes on the telly it will be his signal to use the "Self Check-Out".

 

[wolfie138]

I actually think the BBCs sister QED documentary is far worse. Well worth a watch if you have never seen it.

i have that book, it's an excellent read

 

[wolfie138]

 

[mr.bond]

Try 'The war game', originally on the BBC, made in 65 about a stray nuclear missile detonated over Rochester. I managed to catch it when on iplayer, now removed, but I'd you manage to find it well worth a watch. As grim as Threads. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0059894/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

 

[Ayahuasca]

Thou shalt check oneself before one wrecks oneself.

 

[arc@css]

I don't think I've properly taken the time to watch Threads, but might do soon.

 

[alchal]

C'mon.... Sheffield's not that bad.

I live there.

It is, although we are that backwards up north any nuke attack would both improve the place and have zero effect on our already northern / Yorkshire way of live.

Win.

 

[Malevolence]

Just need 'When the Wind Blows' to be shown now. That's even more traumatic than Threads.

 

[Quartz]

Coming to BBC Four in October. Perfect for Halloween.

I remember taking the view at the time that we lived sufficiently near somewhere sufficiently likely to get nuked that we'd be dead and none of it mattered.

 

[Flibster]

I remember taking the view at the time that we lived sufficiently near somewhere sufficiently likely to get nuked that we'd be dead and none of it mattered.

Back home in Norfolk we were surrounded by RAF and USAF bases so no chance.

Now, live between Stevenage and Luton. Who'd want to nuke Luton or Stevenage? It'd improve the scenery and raise property value for a start....