Thirty Eulogies

The story of how a heterosexual, Indian immigrant to England, ignorant of the gay scene, ended up delivering heartfelt eulogies to 30 homosexual men at the height of the AIDS crisis. The experiences of Suresh Vaghela take us behind the headlines of the infected blood scandal and into a transformative relationship between a hemophiliac and the people who he came to regard as his new family.(Including extracts from the BBC Sound Archive and from the 1975 World In Action documentary Blood Money, Granada TV) Music by Jeremy Warmsley Produced by Nicolo Majnoni Executive Producer: Alan Hall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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