Cathy Come Home Shelter

Fifty years after cathy come home it s high time we invested in providing some.

Cathy come home shelter. A ken loach directed film about a young family pulled apart by worsening housing conditions. He is best known as the voice behind 1980s children s classic mr benn and now plays pauline fowler s boyfriend joe macer in eastenders. Watched by over 12 million people its impact ensured public empathy and support for shelter from our very beginning. Filmed in a gritty realistic drama documentary style it was first broadcast on 16.

That same year the bbc screened cathy come home. Cathy come home is a 1966 bbc television play by jeremy sandford produced by tony garnett and directed by ken loach about homelessness a 1998 radio times readers poll voted it the best single television drama and a 2000 industry poll rated it as the second best british television programme ever made. Head of communications and policy at shelter scotland adam lang said. But the legacy of cathy come home continues more than five decades later.

Cathy come home by ken loach bbc charity viewpoint. Cathy come home depicts all too clearly the human tragedy and. Both it and crisis. A group of housing associations that were formed in the cathy come home era 1960 s came together in 2016 to mark the 50th anniversary of cathy come home and to highlight the continuing needs of homeless people.

Cathy loses her home husband and eventually her child through the inflexibility of the british welfare system. The homelessness charity shelter was by coincidence launched a few days after it was broadcast. This article was amended on 4 august 2016 to clarify that cathy come home was written by jeremy sandford and. With carol white ray brooks winifred dennis wally patch.

It s been 50 years since caroline visited the caravan site where she was. Cathy come home is a 1966 bbc television play by jeremy sandford produced by tony garnett and directed by ken loach about homelessness a 1998 radio times readers poll voted it the best single television drama and a 2000 industry poll rated it as the second best british television programme ever made. Directed by ken loach. This organisation was shelter.