This episode, I speak to Professor Sue Vice – Threads researcher at the University of Sheffield.

We talk about deleted scenes, spiritual defiance, and why Threads might be a gothic story.

Sue is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and her interests lie in the areas of contemporary literature, film and Holocaust studies. Her books include Barry Hines: ‘Kes’, ‘Threads’ and Beyond, with David Forrest, and Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance.

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Before Mick Jackson made Threads, he made a documentary called QED: A Guide to Armageddon, which was shown by the BBC in 1982. Everyone’s favourite Dr Vicky McMahon returns to tell us all about QED and how it relates to Threads. I talk about what it was like to watch Threads on the big screen and we also chat about the exciting release of Survivors: The Spectre of Threads.

You can watch QED: A Guide to Armageddon on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9iI-gMqa4

I’m Chas Newkey-Burden and when I watched the nuclear war film Threads 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.

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Giss’un! This week we hear from Marcus Lund, who played Gaz in Threads.

In the closing scenes of the film, two boys called Gaz and Spike appear in the desolate farm building where Jane is hiding and demand she gives them her dead rabbit.

Marcus talks about what it was like behind the scenes of Threads, the film’s destruction of memory and how to find the beauty in life.

Read more about what Marcus is up to now:

Custodia Borealis

Crowdfunder to To establish a Magic & Occult Museum in the North

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