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simong
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Post by simong »

Chrism wrote: I've got Threads on DVD, a brilliant piece of TV. Was it banned or just never shown again since the 80's? It was never banned - the last version of the DVD was released in 2005. We were shown it at school, but then again I was at school in Doncaster and RAF Finningley would have been one of the first targets. It's really a historical document now as we're nowhere as near the possibility of a full scale nuclear war as we seemed to be in 1983-4. It's as of its time as The War Game was of 1965, and that was cancelled as it was regarded as defeatist.
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Chrism
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Post by Chrism »

simong wrote: Chrism wrote: I've got Threads on DVD, a brilliant piece of TV. Was it banned or just never shown again since the 80's? It was never banned - the last version of the DVD was released in 2005. We were shown it at school, but then again I was at school in Doncaster and RAF Finningley would have been one of the first targets. It's really a historical document now as we're nowhere as near the possibility of a full scale nuclear war as we seemed to be in 1983-4. It's as of its time as The War Game was of 1965, and that was cancelled as it was regarded as defeatist. I've got The War Game too, that's good but Threads is better. I can see why TWG was banned as it must have been terrifying in the 60's to watch that.
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jonleeds
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Post by jonleeds »

Yes we were shown 'Threads' at high school in 1987 as a Friday afternoon 'treat' if you can call something thats caused me continuing recurring nightmares ever since a 'treat'...!?! Apparently lots of schools showed it, maybe it was put on the curriculum, I dont know, but there is a facebook 'Threads' survivors group, or there used to be. The War Game is pretty tame in comparision, but still frightening, and the American film 'The Day After' (no not 'The Day After Tomorrow' is similarly chilling.
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Post by jonleeds »

Nice one Si, I found the poem you referred to on BBC iplayer, see:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pt99dits only available for another couple of days tho.
Have your fun when you're alive - you won't get nothing when you die... have a good time all the time! - Chumbawumba!

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Post by Jogon »

His 1987 Channel 4 prog on youtube - parts 1-4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPutBM7zfv8worth a look also for Holbeck / Beeston Cemetery
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