I’m Chas Newkey-Burden and when I watched the nuclear war film Threads in 1984 at the age of 11 it terrified me and changed my life forever.
I started this podcast to speak to other people whose lives have been changed by Threads, from cast and crew members, to extras, broadcasters, authors and super fans.
Welcome… to Jesus Christ, They’ve Done it.
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I’m Chas Newkey-Burden and when I watched the nuclear war film Threads in 1984 at the age of 11 it terrified me and changed my life forever.
I started this podcast to speak to other people whose lives have been changed by Threads, from cast and crew members, to extras, broadcasters, authors and super fans.
Welcome… to Jesus Christ, They’ve Done it.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
‘You cannot win a nuclear war!’
But you can listen to episode three of the Threads podcast, which is out now.
This time, I speak with Maggie Ford, who played the unnamed CND activist in Threads.
She’s on screen for just 76 seconds of the film, but she’s always been one of my favourite characters because of her powerful speech and because she reminds me of the CND activists who took me under their wing when I joined at the age of 11, after I first watched Threads.
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