My time in 'Threads': Catherine Taylor on smearing her face with Rice Krispies and weathering a nuclear attack

‘Extras were selected on the basis of height, age and the ability to look depressed. I was a perfect match for the last requirement’

Good afternoon members — and welcome to Tuesday’s Tribune.

All I’ve got to go on are archive pictures, but what was it really like to grow up in Sheffield during the 70s and 80s? Critic, writer and editor Catherine Taylor, who grew up here from the age of three, has written a memoir about coming of age during what was a tumultuous time for the city. Her …