'Turning my brother's Windrush trauma into a TV drama'

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'Turning my brother's Windrush trauma into a TV drama'
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"It broke me," Bryan said of the ordeal in a 2019 BBC documentary, which is being repeated five days after the drama. Bryan had to prove he really had arrived in the 60s and been in the UK ever since. The Home Office thought he was lying, he told MPs in 2018. "Initially, I think he was disappointed and hurt and felt like he was being treated like a criminal by his own country when he'd done nothing wrong," Thompson continues.

"When you hear more about it, you just think, that could be me or my brother," Robinson says."So yes, it's outrageous and sadly par for the course to do with bureaucracy and government, especially the British government."

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