Threads, the 1984 nuclear war film set in Sheffield, is being remade by the production company behind Adolescence. The grim drama fast became a cult classic, but these archive interviews capture the shocked reactions of extras who'd just watched the full programme for the first time. | BBC Yorkshire

Threads (1984) for the 80's Cold War generation was the scariest war movie ever depicting Britain after the bomb.... Threads is a 1984 British television drama jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, it is a docudrama account of nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in Northern England. The plot centres on two families as a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts. A