Interview: ‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on (www.theguardian.com)

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Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak, rarely seen docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984, while our writer explores the film’s lasting legacy

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[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Saw Threads in 1986 as a student living in Sheffield. Hit pretty close to home, obviously.

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