The Problematic Gaze
Join Lee and Dave for lighthearted look at the world of TV, Film and Popular Culture of yesteryear that has since been considered problematic. Should they be 'cancelled' or celebrated? What can we learn from them? Does the mention of 'Mrs Slocombe's pussy' send you into hysterical laughter or moral outrage? Or are you just as confused as us as to how we should feel? Perhaps a glass of wine would help?
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The Problematic Gaze
Ep 19: 'Threads' TV movie from 1984. Sheffield, shelters and nuclear winters.
Join Lee and Dave for a lighthearted look at the world of TV, Film and Popular Culture from yesteryear that has since been considered problematic. This week we struggle to find anything uplifting to say about the TV film 'Threads' from 1984. Although, considering its subject matter is nuclear armageddon, we'd challenge anyone to put a positive slant on it! The source of many a child of the 80's nightmares, 'Threads' is an unrelenting study on what can happen when two superpowers collide. We promise we'll be funny funny funny next week! That's if we're all still here.........
Also, Lee takes a tumble. And Dave is doing nothing unsavoury whatsoever with a sheep!
Click here to watch 'Threads' on BBC IPlayer in the UK. A word of warning. Contains extremely graphic depictions of nuclear war.
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