If WW2, the Blitz and the Battle of Britain are the UK's modern creation myths, then Threads and other nuclear war narratives are its eschatology, or at least some of them, More pressing threats face us now, but mushroom clouds are always more evocative than climate change, particularly in Britain.

But as rising temperatures, mega storms and global instability draw ever nearer, perhaps we might consider the apocalypse that is upon us, and, you know, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Fatalism is comforting, in a way. It means we don't have to put any work in. [ENDS] www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeEW...

'It's Kevin' Kevin Eldon on 80s gritty drama. Ken Bleaksdale - All Fall Down

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