00:00Good evening. During the next two hours, CK&D will telecast the Manitoba premiere of the controversial BBC production of
00:10Threads, a fictional docudrama depicting nuclear war's shocking reality based on scientific, medical, agricultural, and psychological research.
00:24You will not be watching a pleasant drama. Some reviewers of Threads have stated that it makes last year's ABC
00:32production The Day After look like a walk in the park. However, it is educational, informative, compelling, and thought-provoking,
00:43and CK&D, as a community-responsive broadcaster, believes it should be telecast in Manitoba.
00:52Sometimes we need to be made uncomfortable by what we watch on TV, and it will be very difficult to
00:58sit through the next two hours without experiencing discomfort.
01:03And yet Threads demands to be seen both for its uncommon skill of presentation and for its important subject matter.
01:12Threads tells the story of two families living in Sheffield, England, from one month before their hometown is devastated by
01:19a nuclear strike, through the horrifying and harrowing aftermath, graphically depicted over a 13-year period.
01:28Due to the nature of the content, CK&D has decided this special program should not be interrupted.
01:35So we present Threads uncut, uninterrupted, and commercial-free.
01:41If you choose to watch it, we expect that you will also make your own decision as to its importance
01:48and its reality.
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