Karen Meagher

"It was cloaked to a great extent in secrecy almost. You knew what it was about, but the script was a close-kept secret I think. Not many people had seen it, and I think they were worried that it would…"

"I was unaware really of the importance of it at the time, but I was asked to go for an interview, which I did, and I was the first person that Mick Jackson saw for the part. And I went looking rather …"

"I think if you put an infallible weapon into man's fallible hands there is always a threat that something's going to go wrong."

"We did have rehearsal time at the BBC and we did have access to material out of Japan , which hadn't really been accessed at the time by people in the Western world, so literature that was grim, serio…"

"At first he said that he wouldn't do Threads, but then he thought about it and thought, "Well, I'd rather nobody else do it, I'd rather do it myself."

"I think Threads didn't keep people at arm's length, it drew people in because of the characters that everybody knew. I mean, we related to them, and that's what I think made Threads so visceral for pe…"

"It's hard to watch and it should be hard to watch. It should frighten people, and if it's done that, it's done its job."