Dir. Mick Jackson | UK | 1hr 52min | 1984

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“In an urban society everything connects, each person’s needs are feed by the skills for many others, our lives are woven together in a fabric, but the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable”

It’s testament to the impact of Threads that in 2013, some twenty-nine years since it’s original airing on the BBC, that The Guardian still called it “Easily one of the most harrowing things ever to air on television, Threads is an unremittingly bleak and entirely plausible account of nuclear war and its aftermath”.

Threads is an utterly unique production, born from the pen of Barry Hines (author of A Kestrel for a Knave – which was subsequently adapted into Kes). The success and power of Threads lies its placing, juxtaposing the unimaginable terror of Nuclear War in a totally imaginable and relatable environment, an everyday, working class city, in this case: Sheffield.

It’s thirty-years since the multiple BAFTA-winning Threads aired on the BBC and at Sensoria it gets a rare, outdoor public screening. The screening, held at Sheffield’s Amphitheatre, will be broadcast through wireless headphones, not only producing high clarity of sound but also adding to the intensity of the experience.

Please note the headphones have a £10 deposit.