KEYWORDS Episode 1 - In Plain Sight

In this 6-part series, comedian and activist Mark Thomas, in his typical style of drawing attention to things the government might rather we forget, talks to essential workers about how they carried on, continuing to hold things together, while the government, in the words of Boris Johnson was ’totally fucking hopeless”. Mark asks what changed for them, what stayed the same, and what the future holds.This week Mark talks to carers, refuse collectors, tube drivers, amazon drivers and teachers about how Covid 19 shone a light on Key Workers. One minute they were deemed ‘low skilled’ the next the Prime Minister is clapping his hands on the doorstep of Downing St, hailing NHS and Key Workers. So what how happened? Did Britain reevaluate the working class? How were Key Workers seen buy public and government? And will any changes last?Mark's previous podcast collecting working peoples testimony was for the Wellcome Collection - Mark Thomas’s Lockdown Check Up - which followed NHS and care staff through the first lockdown has now been put into the Wellcome Collection permanent archive. www.markthomasinfo.com

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