Protect and Survive
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Oct 30, 2026
Anthony WilliamsHOST
You could look at some of those informational films from the sort of 60s, 70s and 80s.
Anthony WilliamsHOST
I'm thinking in Britain, Protect and Survive, in America, Duck and Cover, through to something like Threads, which was a BBC drama that is probably one of the scariest things I've ever seen, through to Chernobyl.
Anthony WilliamsHOST
And along the way, you have things like The Hills Have Eyes, and that was remade in the 2000s.
Anthony WilliamsHOST
So I don't think that's gone away.
Fergus MacpheeHOST
No, I think I doubt if they are as well.
Fergus MacpheeHOST
I want to move on to something that you mentioned earlier, which is through the 60s through to the 80s and the Cold War, which culminated in the Protect and Survive campaign.
Fergus MacpheeHOST
I said it's kind of looked back on controversially because government messaging is one thing.
Fergus MacpheeHOST
How does one survive in a nuclear war?
ShaunHOST
then I can understand it.
ShaunHOST
But the other part of my head is thinking, if we're talking about going to war with Russia, it makes me think of, do you remember Patrick Allen doing those adverts in the 80s? Protect and survive.
GuyHOST
In the event the siren goes off, sit under the kitchen table.
GuyHOST
Sit
Laura PiperCORRESPONDENT
Britain only rarely embarks on major public information campaigns.
Laura PiperCORRESPONDENT
One of the last big ones was in 1980 called Protect and Survive, and it gave guidance to people about how to build bomb shelters in their gardens.
Laura PiperCORRESPONDENT
This current campaign is about stockpiling, giving advice on gathering in tinned foods, cash and even wind-up radios in case of outages.
Laura PiperCORRESPONDENT
It's not too dissimilar to the message decades
Andy DawsonHOST
In the 80s, we
Sam DelaneyHOST
had pamphlets about Protect and Survive, which I believe we've done a deep dive on before.
Sam DelaneyHOST
We had pamphlets about the AIDS, didn't we? We had pamphlets about, what was the other? The heroin pandemic.
Andy DawsonHOST
The heroin.
Simon FarquharHOST
It still looks quite similar actually.
Simon FarquharHOST
Um, the, uh, Protect and Survive, um, project that the government had been working on in the '70s, which is quite famous now with the, those horrible public information films with that awful jingle and, and so on.
Karen MeagherGUEST
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Simon FarquharHOST
Uh, interestingly, when, um, when that was looked at in detail, we all know now that, you know, putting a, um, a door under the stairs and stuff doesn't work.
Simon FarquharHOST
Um, the Her Majesty's Stationery Office revealed it would take four weeks to print it alone for every household in Britain.
Karen MeagherGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Simon FarquharHOST
Um, also, if you look at those Protect and Survive films-
Karen MeagherGUEST
Mm-hmm
Mick JacksonGUEST
Have it happening on screen.
David GregoryHOST
Well, it seemed also like there wa- there was still this, th- th- when the Protect and Survive pamphlet came out about what to do, uh, when a nuclear blast happens, was very much a throwback to kind of The Blitz and how we all come together and, uh, and we will overcome this.
David GregoryHOST
And it seems like a lot of the things that you do is, is actually, uh, basically showing that that would be completely ineffectual in, in this situation.
Mick JacksonGUEST
Well, it is.
Mick JacksonGUEST
You can't really protect a civilian population against nuclear war.
Mick JacksonGUEST
It's just, uh-
Kier-La JanisseGUEST
Can you guys talk a, or can you talk a bit about that Protect and Survive campaign, uh, for people who are in North America listening that might not know what it is?
Mick JacksonGUEST
There were various things that the government did to prepare, um, for nuclear war.