THIS WEEK’S CHOICE

A series of four 15-minute dramas addressing topics relating to the Black Lives Matter campaign. Here’s the line-up...

When Oliver catches his 16-year-old daughter Justina sneaking out, the usual scenes of antagonism between parent and child follow. However, it soon transpires that Justina is sneaking out to a Black Lives Matter march. What follows is an enlightening, but bitter sweet conversation for both father and daughter, as their views differ on what it means to fight for social justice. Nicholas Pinnock, stars with Holby City veteran Yasmin Monet Prince.

This tells the story of a former couple who bump into each other a few years later at a mate’s party. They end up reassessing their relationship and the challenges they faced being a middle-class black woman and a working-class white bloke and the insidious and undeniable impact of racism on their love and friendship.

This focuses upon the lives of young professional couple Nicola and Michael and the aftermath of them being stopped by the police while out driving on a date. We witness the fallout of this event, as we see the change in them from before the incident and the impact it has on them individually, and as a couple.

This centres around an uncomfortable conversation had between a white woman and her mixed-race daughter, who has recently had a baby with a black man. When her mother cannot understand her experience of the world and how that impacts her new-born daughter, an immovable wedge appears between them. Can it be overcome?