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Uploaded by on Apr 3, 2009

Threads is a 1984 BBC television play depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and early 1984. The premise of Threads was to hypothesise the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom after an exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States escalates to include the UK.

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  • The scene with the children on hard wooden benches among piles of filth and debris, watching a battered old 1980s VHS recording of "words and pictures" ..... That really takes me back to my childhood..... Happy memories!

  • I bet the fucking X-Factor would still be on.

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  • 3:03...aw,she dead.

  • The worst part is how would I get my Chinese Takeaway delivered ?

  • @11TechGuy In a few generations survival of the fittest would have people relatively normal again provided there was little radiation.

  • so if this happens the world will literally be taken over by retards and deformed people! thats why it wouldn't be the fittest who survival and we "evolve" we would "de-evolve"

  • @ 9:09 God, that's eery to hear the same song aired just before the war still playing 13 years later since nobody's had any time to create more art or music.

  • I figured civilization would return, like a medieval type of civilization.

  • @soulandmotown I can't tell if your comment is a beautiful satire, causing humour by being an insane exaggeration of what some racist idiots seem to think, or if you're being serious.

  • @5thcenturyad

    And they look about as interested as we were ;)

  • it could have been much worse for those kids...at least it wasn't Betamax

  • "Standard Life for all of your life."

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