In the week since its launch, Facebook owner Meta has signed up more than 100 million users to new social media app Threads. However, the name of the service conjures up a rather different meaning to ...

The spine-chilling drama film Threads, famed for its horrifying depiction of a nuclear apocalypse, is scheduled for a rare airing on the BBC this evening (Wednesday 9 October). First broadcast in 1984 ...

In 1984, the BBC aired a TV movie so disturbing it would only repeat the broadcast once, a year later, on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. That film was Threads, and anyone who’s ...

BBC film Threads was hailed as one of the most iconic films of the 1980s as it dramatised a nuclear war and its effects on Britain, specifically Sheffield. And while the film creators did their best ...

In another sign of shifting forces in the social media universe, the U.K.’s national public service broadcaster, the BBC, is dipping a toe into the fediverse by setting up its own Mastodon instance.

Back in 1984 there was one drama that had everyone talking and quaking in their boots in equal measure and that show, Threads, will air again on Wednesday night, for only the fourth time ever. Feature ...

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