I came across this when I was researching my post on 1980s nuclear tension, the rather grim cover of the BBC listings magazine Radio Times the week they screened Threads.
I doubt if the BBC would have the balls to make a film as difficult and politically-controversial as Threads these days, and I doubt if the current, more populist version of the (once-great) Radio Times would have an image like this on its cover either — unless it was something to do with Doctor Who.
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They’d never give a traffic warden a rifle.
Pistol maybe, but never rifle.
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Great cover.
Have you ever seen 1965 film ‘The War Game’?
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Fucking hell. That cover is seared into my memory.
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Found a copy of the movie over here in a used bookstore, still a chilling reminder of growing up between american airbases in east anglia and the ever present threat of m.a.d. I love this movie probably more than is normal.
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