Head of Specialist Factual, Channel 4. Defiance, Accused: Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, Miners’ Strike, Grenfell, Kids, The Piano, Paula, How to Survive a Dictator
“I had the best foster carers in the world and they gave me the ability to dream” - Brad composed a piece for Frank and Ev for
#ThePiano
final, and they gasp as he reveals this on stage
So sad to see the brave family of Gurdip Singh Chaggar speaking for the first time in a documentary about his tragic murder, what a heartbreaking story
#Defiance
@channel4
“I was bullied in my infancy and I’m representing neurodiversity .. and it’s ok to be different, it really is” - the moving words Michael spoke to the audience before playing his own spine-tingling composition
#ThePiano
Wonderful Brad, who grew up with his foster carers Frank and Ev, says he’s going to show “what a number can do” - watch back his incredible performance
@channel4
#ThePiano
Paul and his wife Louise went to a fertility temple in Bhutan and then this happened... our first
#GraysonsArtClub
baby. Born 4 hours before filming. Unbelievable.
New episode of Grayson Perry’s Big American Road Trip tonight takes us up the East Coast, in search of the liberal elite. 10pm on
@Channel4
and whole series on
@All4
.
#GraysonPerry
Don’t miss the incredible episode of our
#MinersStrike1984
series tonight on the harrowing “Battle” of
#Orgreave
- so powerful poignant & relevant for today - please make time to watch at 9pm or stream
@channel4
- thanks so much to those who told their story
#MinersStrike
“I just want to show that we care kids can still do stuff … thank you for appreciating my music” - incredible emotion as Brad is awarded performance of the night by
@mikasounds
@lang_lang
#ThePiano
The Chaggar family shared their never before seen home video footage of the funeral of Gurdip Singh, who was murdered in 1976, and the pictures are just so moving
#Defiance
@channel4
Our contributor Avtar Brah describes movingly how Blair Peach, killed in the Southall protest, was lain in his coffin in the Dominion cinema - 8000 people filed past to pay respects 12 June 1979
#Defiance
NOW
@channel4
don’t miss the visceral, immersive and disturbing story of the
#Southall
protests and the devastating killing of Blair Peach - who has been held to account?
#Defiance
- the Asian fightback - stream all the episodes and take part in the conversation
Brilliant screening of
#Defiance
in Bradford tonight - don’t miss
@Channel4
Monday at 9pm onwards - the epic story of British Asian resistance against the far right - never told before on TV … the Southall protests, the Battle of Brick Lane, the Bradford 12 - vital history
Incredible that the wave of fires at Asian people’s homes in Walthamstow and elsewhere has been so little reported. The
#Defiance
team unearthed little seen archive and witnesses for our
@channel4
series - and the stories are so disturbing
“The police … protected them and unleashed violence on us” our contributor Pritpal recollects the moment the National Front arrived at
#Southall
Town Hall on the day of the protest
#Defiance
@channel4
a seminal chapter in British history
If you missed our final episode of
#GraysonsArtClub
tonight watch back on
@All4
- it will make you feel better about the world - thank you to all our wonderful artists who showed art is for everyone and it can make us feel ok
@Alan_Measles
@Philippa_Perry
thank you
Amazing to reflect on how Roger Hargreaves really created something visually new in
#50YearsOfMrMen
- great insights into how the characters were - and still are - conceived and drawn with
@RealMattLucas
at 6pm
@Channel4
“There’s a new beginning for everyone - you just have to search for it” incredible Brad in Liverpool - bringing “waves of emotion” says Lang Lang
#ThePiano
@channel4
“There was no lessons for us to learn … it happened to us” amazing
@PritpalKD
giving us such a thoughtful, reflective ending to
#Defiance
- a huge thank you to all our wonderful contributors - “here to stay here to fight”
This brilliant film presented by
@RealMattLucas
& directed by Kelly Close is on today at 6pm
@Channel4
- the joyful & fascinating story of the Mr Men & Little Miss books & we reveal 2 new characters
“Parveen Khan holding her baby at the window - that’s the image I had”
Heartbreaking from Zubia Darr about the death of her friends in a house fire - new testimony in
#Defiance
suggests it was part of a wave of largely unreported arson attacks aimed at Asians
@channel4
At 9pm on
@channel4
an incredible, terrifying film
#Accused
: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax by the brilliant
@8EmilyTurner8
about what happens when online conspiracies enter the real world. Huge thanks to the women who tell their stories &
@peterGbeard
@storyfilms_tv
don’t miss
Brilliant panel
@bafta
tonight for
#Defiance
our new series about the untold on TV story of the British Asian fightback v racist violence in the 70s & 80s - don’t miss the series starting April 8th
@RoganProduction
@rizwanahmed
Tonight at 10pm
@Channel4
-the story of the residents before the fire. Footage filmed by artist Constantine Gras shows them raising concerns about some aspects of the refurbishment. It’s never been seen before. Important & unforgettable.
#Grenfell
#housing
Amazing Sophie and her painting of her family (“not perfect but full of love”) which includes a portrayal of her husband cradling her second baby who she lost
#GraysonsArtClub
It’s time to get creative, as
#GraysonsArtClub
is set to return for a third series in 2022!
Grayson and Philippa Perry return to their studio and create art responding to what has got the nation talking. Themes for public submission open early next year.