Tell your friends to watch Windrush drama Sitting in Limbo – it’s more than the BBC will do!
The Empire Windrush brought many people to the UK to help rebuild the country after World War II. If it had still been in service a couple of years ago, the Tories would have been trying to use it to deport them all again.
Did you know the BBC is screening a drama based on the “Windrush generation” racism scandal?
It’s on this evening (Monday, June 8, 2020), starting at 8.30pm and the BBC appears to have done its best not to promote it in any way.
Make up your own mind on what that says about the BBC’s relationship with the Conservative government, whose racism is likely to be a major story element.
And make up your own mind on whether the Corporation’s reticence has anything to do with the death of George Floyd in the United States, and protests in support of people of colour that have taken place in the UK since it happened, culminating in the removal and sinking of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol yesterday (June 7).
Fortunately, Radio Times at least mentions the play. It says:
Sitting in Limbo could hardly be more timely. Arriving at an extraordinary moment in history as the Black Lives Matter movement grows and as protests take place around the world, this feature-length BBC One drama shines the spotlight on the painful, raw and recent Windrush scandal.
Starring Patrick Robinson and written by Stephen S. Thompson, the factual drama is based on the real-life experiences of a Jamaican-born British man whose life was upended when the Home Office decided that he was actually here illegally.
Anthony has lived in the UK since he was eight years old, but when he decided to obtain a passport and visit his elderly mother in Jamaica, he learnt that there was no record of him as a British citizen. The onus was now on him to prove his citizenship to the Home Office.
Unable to claim his benefits and forced to leave his job, Anthony was left in limbo. He was later forcibly removed from his home and detained as an illegal immigrant, placing his story at the heart of the Windrush immigration scandal, which saw a government crackdown on the children of the “Windrush generation,” who unlike their parents often travelled without their own documents.
Thompson said: “Like everyone caught up in the Windrush scandal, Anthony has been severely traumatised by the experience. It has badly affected his confidence and left him questioning his very identity. As his brother, I saw what he went through first-hand. I couldn’t bear the idea that he had suffered in vain and it made me determined to tell his story. For me, this is personal.”
Source: Sitting in Limbo – BBC One Windrush scandal drama | cast, air date, what it’s about – Radio Times
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Cheers for this Mike! I hadn’t seen it it was on.
Ah those missing records they can’t find have they learned from whot the dwp does to sick disable mentally ill unemployed they used that trick we haven’t got or had hmmm but this government is the worst ever for treatment of its citizens