Organised by BAFTA
Q&A with Director and Producer Tim Kirby, Presenter and Executive Producer David Olusoga and Contributors Professor Aneez Esmail, Dr Oswald Fernando and Professor Carol Baxter.
Monday, 12 July 2021 - 6:00pm
Online, Zoom Webinar
David Olusoga explores the hidden history of the nurses, doctors and health workers who, for more than 70 years, have been coming to Britain from overseas to serve in the NHS. Without them the NHS would have been in danger of collapse - not least during the current COVID-19 crisis - but from the very start the story of a much admired, even beloved, British institution has been intertwined with one of the most contested and divisive social and political issue of the age: immigration - and the people who came to this country to serve in the NHS have found themselves fighting battles they neither sought nor expected.
This one hour special gives voice to the dramatic, moving and sometimes raw experiences of nurses from the Irish Republic, the Caribbean and the Philippines, GPs and surgeons from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and paramedics from Central Europe as well as to the British-born children and grandchildren of immigrants who have also found themselves helping and healing with one hand while fending off the sharp end of discrimination and racism with the other.
Our is an Uplands Production. The Director and Producer is Tim Kirby and the Executive Producers are Charlotte Sacher, David Olusoga and Mike Smith. The BBC Commissioning Editor is Emma Loach.
With thanks to BBC