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Patrick Robinson plays Anthony Bryan in Sitting In Limbo

Anthony Bryan lived and worked in the UK, with 50 Years of age, When he was arrested suddenly, and almost deported. His brother now has his story told in a feature-length TV drama that brings home the impact of the Windrush Scandal .

Anthony Bryan ' s story was told and and - But a TV drama has The Power to really immerse yourself in the life of a person.

In the Bbc One Sits In limbo, we follow Bryan , a painter and decorator who had never been in trouble with The Law , as he said, he can no longer booked to work, before he was arrested in his London house, in custody for five weeks and on a plane to Jamaica, a country he had not visited since 1965, When he was eight.

Patrick Robinson , who plays Bryan , Says : "When I read The Script , I was in tears, just half way through and blubbing to know at The End , that I wanted this piece because it makes me Feel . "

Bryan was one of many People to be trapped in the Windrush Scandal - People who had moved from The Caribbean to the United Kingdom, usually as children, and became Collateral Damage as the government of "Hostile Environment " to Immigration .

Anthony Bryan , with his partner Janet McKay-Williams

The government has said More Than 160 People were wrongly imprisoned or deported. More Than 1,270 claims were compensated.

An independent review found that it was a "deep institutional failures", the thousands of People upside life down-and the Home Secretary Priti Patel said: "in the name of this and subsequent governments, I Am truly sorry for the actions over the decades".

"It broke me," Bryan said of The Ordeal in a year 2019, The Bbc documentary, which is repeated Five Days after the drama.

His Younger Brother , The Writer , Stephen S Thompson, his first-hand insight, to write The Script , the for Sitting In the balance.

He heard originally, on the arrest of Bryan 's partner Janet .

Bafta-nominated Nadine Marshall plays Janet in the TV drama

"My first thought was, this is a bit weird, because I never knew him in trouble with The Police ," Says Thompson. "And Then she mentioned The Word 'Immigration '. And that made it even stranger.

"at First, shock was shock, And Then like, OK, how we are practically to do this? How do we get him?"

Bryan had to prove that he had truly arrived in the 60s and since has been in the UK already. The Home Office thought he was lying, he told MPs in 2018.

He was twice imprisoned, and he was afraid he would be next to His Family , When she visited him in Jamaica. Only a last minute intervention by an Immigration lawyer in 2017 prevented his deportation.

Stephen S Thompson, with his brother,

Bryan was "very stoic", so Thompson. "Of course, he is traumatized by it. He couldn't quite believe it, as all of us.

"is He from where he thinks, okay, well, it must be a mistake. He has quite a lot of faith in it or he had quite a lot of confidence in The System in This Country , in this idea of "Fair Play ".

"He refuses to Feel even up to This Day , bitter, or they take it personally or see it basically as a Problem of race. "

'Treated like a criminal'

Even so, the current background of the protests over systemic racism in the United Kingdom and the United States on Monday, the broadcast added potency is likely.

"First of all, I think he was disappointed and hurt and felt like he was treated like a criminal, from his own country, where he did nothing wrong," continues Thompson.

"is The sense of disappointment is probably the underlying emotions. How could the country that left he believed so much in the lurch, so bad?"

Anthony Bryan told his story to his brother for The Script

Bryan was heavily involved with the Thompson was the work on The Script . The Writer had to ask to open his brother and Janet , about the feelings that you went through at The Time .

"It's not excavators easily, the stuff added back in," Says Thompson, the soft-spoken Bryan of course that is "completely private".

"But without that emotional content, it would not be just the same. So, that was The Most difficult for me, because you had to experience it again, or at least talk about it in a very explicit way, whereas, as I said, they're not really that kind of guy.

"So, even though he is My Brother , I think, we had to build that trust as we went along. "

Patrick Robinson , who is best known for playing ash in The Bbc accident, remembers being "outraged" When The Scandal broke in the year 2017.

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It was nothing new for him, But - a friend, a brother, in UK, since he was five months old, was not allowed to come back to, after A Trip to Jamaica, which means that it missed His Mother 's funeral.

"If you hear more about them, you think that could be me, or My Brother ," Robinson Says . "So Yes, it is primarily The British government's outrageous and sad to do par for The Course , with bureaucracy and government. "

Robinson 's own parents came from Jamaica to Britain in the late 1950s or early ' 60s. He was born in the UK, But older siblings had traveled with her mother and her father.

Immigration invitation

He learned a lot about the history of Caribbean Immigration to the UK, if you tell a documentary about the Windrush generation in the late 1990s.

For example, he learned that the Conservative health Minister Enoch Powell 's - later notorious for his "rivers of blood" Speech - recruited women from the British Empire as nurses in the national health service in the early 60s.

"you were invited here, and that is what is missing for me in terms of narrative, that People really know," Robinson Says .

Patrick Robinson in a scene from Sitting In Limbo

The Actor got to know The Real Anthony Bryan "a little" in The Course of the shooting.

"He's a very cool guy," he Says . "He's pretty impressive and that's how he was, I think, the whole experience that he had. "

The drama scenes Bryant With Friends in a local club in Tottenham. Before a meeting with Bryan Robinson research a night to get involved under the guise of "shadow" him.

"I slipped in and watched him for an hour, before I made myself known to him in The Club . That was great. And he was very loved, really, as I saw People come up to him and hang out and chat. "

Despite the extensive reporting of the Windrush-Scandal - not least When - Robinson , the TV thinks drama can give the viewer a new insight into The Personal toll.

"I hope that People think. They hope to entertain you. They hope that you will Feel ," he Says .

"to try to understand Other People , you just have to imagine yourself in their shoes. And that's what The Film is, to put it in. "

Sitting in Limbo BST on Bbc One at 20:30 on Monday, And Then . The Unwanted : The Secret Windrush files on Bbc Two at 20:15 on 13 June, And Then .

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Source of news: bbc.com