The effect of a nuclear attack on Sheffield was calculated precisely by the makers of Threads, whose director ... that there's some very harrowing scenes in it, and so there's no way that we ...

In September 1984, when the Cold War was still raging, BBC drama-documentary Threads depicted the horrifying consequences of a nuclear attack on the city of Sheffield. The imagined crisis that ...

Nuclear winter begins. Typhoid, dysentery and radiation sickness run wild. People try, desperately, to keep going, however they can. It is so human, so lacking in melodrama. At this point, some way ...

When it first aired on September 23, 1984, Threads thrust viewers into a nightmarish reality. The drama displayed an unflinching portrayal of a nuclear attack on Sheffield and the horrific years ...

I was so tense I could hardly breathe (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo) Forty years ago, a nuclear ... Threads. I could hardly breathe. Then came the horrifying attacks, starting with the iconic ...

Mark Herbert, founder and chief exec of Warp, said: "Threads was, and remains, an unflinchingly honest drama that imagines the devastating effects of nuclear conflict on ordinary people.