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Nominated for seven BAFTAs, and winning four including Best Single Drama, Threads depicts the effects of global nuclear war on the city of Sheffield.
Written by Barry Hines (Kes) and directed by Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) it is unflinching in its presentation of the weeks leading up to war, the attack itself and the bleak years of nuclear winter that follow.
From its first broadcast the film became one of the most significant and influential commissions ever seen on the BBC. When the drama aired on CNN in 1985 it was rumoured to have changed President Reagan's nuclear policy.
So disturbing is the screenplay that special permission from the highest editorial levels at the BBC is required for any TV screening.