Cathy Come Home
Cathy Come Home
Tuesday 13th May, 2025
Doors: 20:00, with a chance to look around the Back to Backs before the screening.
Screening Starts: 20:55
Content warnings: Classism, Pregnancy and childbirth
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Join us for a special outdoor screening of groundbreaking TV drama Cathy Come Home in the courtyard of the Birmingham Back to Backs.
Few films can claim to have shaped public policy, but that is the case with Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home which caused a huge furore after its first broadcast in November 1966. The tale of a young family’s traumatic journey through the British housing system, parts of the action were filmed in Birmingham’s Hingeston Street, in back-to-backs which were demolished shortly afterwards.
The film had a huge influence on Nick Hedges, then studying photography in Birmingham, and inspired him to document the housing situation around him.
Home in the Shadows: Photography by Nick Hedges is on show at the Birmingham Back to Backs until the autumn.
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