The One To Watch.
Did anyone watch the repeat of “Cathy Come Home” on BBC4 last night?
This was a 1966 documentary about a homeless couple and their children in their desperate search for a place to just live.
This documentary has such an impact that it indirectly inspired the charity Shelter.
On Wednesday 29th November at 10:40 on BBC One is the DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK – Evicted.
Evicted allows three children of homeless families to tell their own stories and judging from the written preview by Alison Graham in the current Radio Times, it is a harrowing tale that has absolutely no place in 2006.
Even for a hard bitten old salt like myself I just know that I will shed more than a tear or two and I’m sure that the nation will be drawn to tears of first sympathy and then anger. Anger for how can such things happen today when this government, who is supposed to look after the citizens, are wasting billions on everything but what the citizens have a right to expect.
Watch it, but don’t blame me if you cannot get to sleep on Wednesday night. Blame the government.
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