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In 1973, fearing a Soviet nuclear strike, a UK government committee was formed to write a message to be played from the British Broadcasting Corporation’s secret bunker in Scotland during a worst-case-scenario attack. Irreverently constructed using declassified documents and scenes from the BBC’s drama-documentary The War Game (1965), Final Draft: Scripting the Apocalypse is a darkly comic, Kubrickian examination of the deep weirdness of modern warfare.
Director: Scott Calonico
Producer: Erin Osborne-Martin
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Information and communication
‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph
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Engineering
From simple motors to levitating trains – how design shapes innovation
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Animals and humans
Are zoos and natural history museums born of a desire to understand, or to control?
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Archaeology
What’s an ancient Greek brick doing in a Sumerian city? An archeological investigation
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Family life
The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
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Ecology and environmental sciences
The tree frog die-off that sparked a global mystery – and revealed a dark truth
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History
From Afghanistan to Virginia – the Muslims who fought in the American Civil War
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Family life
One family’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam, told in a poignant metaphor
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Fairness and equality
Visit the small Texas community that lives in the shadow of SpaceX launches
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