Threads: Utter Misery

This film covered all bases: inter-continental nuclear armageddon, nuclear winter and eating raw sheep, the list goes on. Like all good docu-dramas you end up thinking, "What would I do?". Indeed at school one of the big questions was, "What would you do if the 3 minute warning started?". You had to have an answer, as after those 3 minutes if you were lucky you'd be dead, and you don't want to spend them wondering what to do next.

I do now have a fascination with Cold War bunkers, and subterranean London. There's a city down there built with our money and we know next to nothing about it. I read a dreadful book called "Domain" by James Herbert about giant rats eating survivors of a nuclear war in London. Though the book was crap, he was right about a place called the Kingsway Exchange. Obstensibly this was a telephone exchange behind Holborn but in reality was the heavily reinforced entrance to a bunker. There's a huge bunker under the MOD but from what I've heard of people that have actually been in it its not as exciting as it sounds. That either means that its not exciting or that its so mindblowingly exciting that they're not allowed to say. Its called Pindar and cost an absolute fortune.