UK TV Alert: Gas Attack

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Just alerting UK ILE-ers to this drama-docu which is on tonight on Channel 4 9pm. Supposed to be as scary as Threads. Basically it is the "what would happen if someone spread anthrax in the UK". Prescient at the moment, not just due to its discovery in Florida. Watch, and discuss tomorrow...

Pete, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,547930,00.html

not nearly as scary as this

Mike Hanle y, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Watch Lost afterwards at 10:40 C4...anyone else see this? I turned the TV on late last Saturday night and watched it till 2 in the morning. People dumped in the middle of nowhere, no idea where, having to get back to Trafalgar Square and claim prize. Full of mentalists.
Although you might have had something better to do!

Bill, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope, I'm going off to see Peaches.

suzy, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dya reckon they'll still show the Gas Attack programme, despite current circumstances?

chris, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw the subject heading and thought there'd been a gas attack in the UK.

Kerry, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will definetely not be watching this show!

jel, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Same reaction as Kerry, except I actually live on Caledonia Road and these fuckers are lighting firecrackers outside my window. Shitting myself there for a second!

dave q, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Come on then, tell us non-telly-owning types how scary it was!

Tom, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, do. The video recorder defeated me before I went to see half of Cannibal Ox.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was pretty scary (especially when I had Emma display flu-like symptoms on the sofa near me). The scariest thing was easily the inability of the authorities to cope with it, even up to the point that they kept on denying the truth of it until it was too late (it was too late anyway). Problems with it though was that it ended too early and its -admirable - dual aim at showing the poor conditions in which asylum seekers are being kept diluted the message that anyone could get anthrax. The majority of victims we saw were asylum seekers, and the backlash of an uncontrolable spread of the spores still seemed contained within this community. Especially as we did not really see any of the medical staff considering the very real possibility that they had been infected and they should look after themselves before their doomed patients.

Bluntly it left me wanting more, but it was pretty chilling nevertheless.

Pete, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I watched it with Pete and have the proper Fear now especially as I have a bit of a cold AGAIN and coughed all the way through just like the poor asylum seekers who had it. Pete thinks I have the 'thrax. I am scared.

On the other hand I have resumed my Sudafed habit so that can only be a good thing eh...... (Emma's mates all run away very quickly...)

Emma, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Too scary, watched Wonder Boys on video instead and decided to give up music and become an ageing American novelist instead.

Worst Gas Attack thing: I'm still coughing a lot from chesty flu and in the office today everyone's on edge whenever someone coughs and it's usually me. Our editor killed the morning discussion about anthrax because it freaked her out.

chris, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)


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