This is an amazing round up of resources, Vicki. Good on you for collating it all. I'm going to save it for daylight hours, though, to avoid nightmares!
Thanks Wendy😃 Definitely recommend the 1980s docs - fascinating in their own right but also so revealing about how TV's attitude to the intelligence of its audience has changed (!)
Thanks for the mention. I was going to mention the accidental triggering of nuclear protocols but thought you might do. The Eric Schlosser books looks very interesting in that regard; I hadn't heard of it.
They made a doc based on the book too - I've not seen it but based on the trailer it's definitely one to put on the list for the atomic film club which I'm currently cooking up... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5598206/
No, I've not come across this. My blood runs slightly cold at the thoughts of it (especially in light of the main news headline today 😱) but you're right, it sounds fascinating. A good accompaniment for when I'm chopping veg for tonight's dinner I think. Thanks for the heads up!
Valuable information here, both from a historical standpoint and an educational one. I'm still working myself up to watching Threads, but the other links are also fascinating.
I remember watching When The Wind Blows, in my impressionable youth too :)
When the Wind Blows is probably more heartbreaking. Threads is just so brutal it's almost beyond regular emotions I think. Let me know if you do bring yourself to giving it a watch.
This is an amazing round up of resources, Vicki. Good on you for collating it all. I'm going to save it for daylight hours, though, to avoid nightmares!
Thanks Wendy😃 Definitely recommend the 1980s docs - fascinating in their own right but also so revealing about how TV's attitude to the intelligence of its audience has changed (!)
Thanks for the mention. I was going to mention the accidental triggering of nuclear protocols but thought you might do. The Eric Schlosser books looks very interesting in that regard; I hadn't heard of it.
They made a doc based on the book too - I've not seen it but based on the trailer it's definitely one to put on the list for the atomic film club which I'm currently cooking up... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5598206/
Ta. will look at that. Have you seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afl5EAc7oXc
I haven't watched it yet but it looks interesting (and terrifying)
No, I've not come across this. My blood runs slightly cold at the thoughts of it (especially in light of the main news headline today 😱) but you're right, it sounds fascinating. A good accompaniment for when I'm chopping veg for tonight's dinner I think. Thanks for the heads up!
watching that while chopping veg? Blimey. Be careful, Vicki.
Valuable information here, both from a historical standpoint and an educational one. I'm still working myself up to watching Threads, but the other links are also fascinating.
I remember watching When The Wind Blows, in my impressionable youth too :)
When the Wind Blows is probably more heartbreaking. Threads is just so brutal it's almost beyond regular emotions I think. Let me know if you do bring yourself to giving it a watch.