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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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In another sign of shifting forces in the social media universe, the U.K.’s national public service broadcaster, the BBC, is dipping a toe into the fediverse by setting up its own Mastodon instance.