David Olusoga: The Secret Windrush Files

Sun 23 June 2019

The historian uncovers the hidden stories behind the Windrush scandal at an exclusive screening of his new BBC documentary, followed by a talk.

In The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files, David Olusoga gives a platform to powerful and personal testimony from men and women of the Windrush generation, who arrived in Britain as children between 1948 and 1972, and exposes secret government files that reveal a scandal 70 years in the making.

Following the screening, Olusoga joins us on stage to delve into the history behind the scandal, as well as the research and discoveries that led to the making of his revelatory documentary.

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files is an Uplands Television production for BBC2.

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