Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle

  

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Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle8/8. Teenager Michaela Williams has always considered herself black but looks white. Now, the Windrush scandal has brought the question of her heritage and belonging into sharp relief. [S]Wed, Feb 20, 10:15 pmBBC FOUR15 mins
Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle7/8. It is 2019, but in Cyruss confused mind it could be London 2011, and there are riots outside the house. Dementia forces his memories to fragment. [S]Wed, Feb 20, 10:00 pmBBC FOUR15 mins
Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle6/8. At the start of a new century, 21-year-old cousins Malcolm and David reflect on their radically different upbringings and consider their current situations. [S]Tue, Feb 19, 10:15 pmBBC FOUR15 mins
Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle5/8. As the only white person in her husbands large family, Samantha Williams has had to counter racial assumptions from both his family and her own. [S]Tue, Feb 19, 10:00 pmBBC FOUR15 mins
Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle4/8. In 1981, as Yvonne prepares to demonstrate for the young black victims of the New Cross fire, she finds herself giving expression to a deeper, personal loss for the first time. [S]Mon, Feb 18, 10:15 pmBBC FOUR15 mins
Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle3/8. Its 1968, and while the world is exploding around him, racially and politically, 17-year-old Kev keeps a low profile as a mechanic, the only black man in a white-owned garage. [S]Mon, Feb 18, 10:00 pmBBC FOUR15 mins
Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle2/8. Cyrus Williams believes he has found the love of his life in a young nurse, Eunice Daley. A chance meeting was all it took for him to want to spend the rest of his life with her. [S]Sun, Feb 17, 10:15 pmBBC FOUR15 mins
Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle1/8. Its 1949, and a year after arriving on the Empire Windrush, Eunice Daley finds herself moving into a room in her uncles house, her belongings crammed into cardboard boxes. [S]Sun, Feb 17, 10:00 pmBBC FOUR15 mins