Sixty Years of ‘Cathy Come Home’: The Enduring Tragedy of British Housing and the Limits of Television as a Catalyst for Change
Executive Overview “You don’t care. You only pretend to care!” With these gut-wrenching words, shouted across a sterile, bureaucratic room by an exhausted, destitute mother to an impassioned board of welfare officials, British television changed forever. These lines, delivered by actress Carol White in the titular role of the 1966 BBC television play Cathy Come … Read more
