TALAWA, one of Britain’s foremost black theatre companies, has produced a set of short films reflecting on a momentous year when the truth of the Windrush scandal was finally revealed, the Black Lives Matter movement exploded and black people have been found to be four times more likely to die from the Covid-19 epidemic than their white counterparts.

Based on verbatim interviews with those in the front line of the battle against Covid-19, Tales from the Front Line brings home a renewed and painful awareness of the inbred racism in British society.

The first of the two has a primary school teacher struggling to convey her responses to the lack of support for staff and students to the increasing health emergency.