Masterclass: Sitting in Limbo
Edinburgh TV Festival 2020
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35m
BBC One’s acclaimed Windrush drama Sitting in Limbo, will be the subject of a session exploring how Stephen S. Thompson, a new-to-TV writer, took his brother Anthony’s lived experience of the ongoing Windrush controversy to the TV screen. Stephen will be joined by director, Stella Corradi and lead actor, Patrick Robinson, to discuss the impact the drama has had – especially when broadcast at such a pivotal moment of social change – and what it tells us about bringing black British stories to TV.
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