Box Hines Papers Box 23
Contains 9 Results:
Second draft shooting script for 'Threads', 19 October 1983
Typed script with handwritten notes by Barry Hines.
Post-production script for 'Threads', 23 September 1984
Script for transmission date of 23 September 1983.
BBC Information pack for 'Threads', [1984]
Information pack including press releases and reviews.
Letter from Neil Kinnock to Michael (Mick) Jackson and Barry Hines relating to 'Threads', 24 September 1984
Letter from Neil Kinnock, Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992, to Hines and the the film's director, Mick Jackson thanking them for making 'Threads' which he describes as 'important and impressive work'.
Material donated by Stephen Pratt of Mexborough, a miner and extra on the set of 'Threads', 1984 - 2013
Photocopy of journal article by Daniel Cordle, '"That's going to happen to us. It is": Threads and the imagination of nuclear disaster on 1980s television', 2013
From the Journal of British Cinema and Television (Vol.10 (1), 2013)
Extracts of letters from Barry Hines to Eleanor Mulvey relating to 'Threads', 6 April 1984 - 8 October 1984
Photocopies of extracts of three letters dated 6 April, 31 August and 9 October 1984.
Article by Paul Whitelaw 'End of the World Revisited' from The Scotsman newspaper, September 2009
Typescript of article plus press cutting dated 5 September 2009.
Press cutting of article by George Bass interviewing Mick Jackson and Karen Meagher from The Guardian, 8 January 2019
Television film first broadcast in 1984. 'Threads' is an account of of a nuclear attack set in the city of Sheffield. Won BAFTA Best Individual Drama, 1984; Broadcasting Press Guild Best Individual Drama, 1984; Special Prince Rainier Prize, Monte Carlo Television Festival, 1984. Directed and produced by Mick Jackson.