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Plenty of genuine stuff public information from the time from youtube and elsewhere, the highlight being this delightfully morbid contribution
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- Mar 2008
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- The Deep South of England
- JPS Lotus
- Shortcake ...no, Custard Cream! ...no, Jammie Dodger...
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Mumpo wrote:
I love the reassuring image they put on the caption.
Could they not have chosen a garden full of flowers, or something a little less alarming?
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Reminds me of the skit in Alas Smith & Jones. GRJ as a newsreader announces that nuclear war has broken out when the news is interrupted for an important breaking news type bulletin. Cue Smith as Dirty Den in EastEnders announcing emphatically: "The dog is fine".
It was much funnier on screen.
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There was much discussion at the BBC over what music should be played at the time of such events. The Beatles were dismissed as too frivolous, and patriotic music was dismissed as too sombre. I think they eventually settled upon "The Sound Of Music".
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- Mar 2008
- 14186
- The Deep South of England
- JPS Lotus
- Shortcake ...no, Custard Cream! ...no, Jammie Dodger...
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twohundredpercent wrote:
There was much discussion at the BBC over what music should be played at the time of such events. The Beatles were dismissed as too frivolous, and patriotic music was dismissed as too sombre. I think they eventually settled upon "The Sound Of Music".
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I'm not altogether convinced that the graphic shown above is an original - more likely a comedy mock-up made by someone in the BBC's IT department.
I have, of course, got a copy of "Protect & Survive" - somebody bought it for me for my birthday about four or five years ago or so. Of course, the whole pamphlet is available online here:
http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/main.htm
Should anyone be interested, by the way, in watching the BBC's horrific 1984 drama "Threads", it's available in its entirety here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488
This comes as highly recommended, by the way.
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Indeed. I saw Threads a few months ago on a recommendation and it is achingly brilliant. But probably the most poignant and eloquent commentary on the tragic uselessness of the Protect & Survive guff is Raymond Briggs "When the Wind Blows", book or film.
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"When The Wind Blows" is fantastic, though I feel that it kind of suffers slightly from being set in such a rural area (although it does prove the point that radiation gets everywhere).
Since we're doing this sort of thing, let's also throw in the BBC's Oscar-winning (and banned for 20 years) "The War Game". You never know how useful this sort of information will be one day.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2864871032688882557&ei=-XPqSLqzI4HCjgL1kJCcBg&hl=en
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Actually, while I think of it, let's get "QED: A Guide To Armageddon" on here, as well. This is the documentary from which much of the science (and, indeed, some of the footage) used in "Threads" was taken:
Part One: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdzyqQIEAI
Part Two: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fPnMOZn7v20
Part Three: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa2jNFieGGw
Don't have nightmares.
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One day, I will recount the story of the day that my VHS copy of "Threads" arrived from Amazon. I am, I have to say, a massive pussy, but I've never been quite as much of a pussy as I was that day.
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