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The government are planning a Protect and Survive film to advise the public on how to react to a terrorist attack.
I can’t think of Protect and Survive without getting horribly upset, thanks to Raymond Briggs’ masterpiece When The Wind Blows. I can’t believe that anyone hasn’t read this, but, just in case, it tells the story of Jim & Hilda Bloggs, an elderly couple who follow government directions to the letter after a nuclear strike. Of course, they slowly die, but are optimistic throughout that the authorities will rescue them. It makes you cry. It also makes you a lifelong pacificist and CND supporter and, as such, should be issued to children at birth.
Apocalyptic children’s fiction was big in the 80s, for obvious reasons, and I’m pretty certain that my entire generation has been scarred for life by reading the likes of When The Wind Blows, Z for Zachariah and Children of the Dust. Read more at EmptyWorld, the apocalyptic fiction site.
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