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The night the country didn’t sleep: 40 years of Threads, the BBC’s traumatising TV movie
Broadcast on BBC2 in 1984, Threads dramatised the fallout from a nuclear attack on Sheffield with harrowing realism. We look back on a TV movie that scarred a generation of viewers for life.
By George Bass
The night the country didn’t sleep: 40 years of Threads, the BBC’s traumatising TV movie