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HIV: The Morning After
An oral history and public-education audio archive documenting the lived experience of people living with HIV in the UK. The series captures testimony at a moment when institutional memory, peer support, and long-term survivor narratives are being eroded, despite medical progress. Led by Emmy award-winning documentary producer Dan Hall, the project is building a long-form archive of recorded testimonies for public, community, and educational use. This podcast uses the following third-party…
Episodes
HIV: The Morning AfterJuan Michael Porter II: Access, Activism, Accountability
Content note: this episode includes descriptions of childhood abuse, sexual assault, strong language, and discussion of current US HIV policy that some…
HIV: The Morning AfterSaul Silva: Silence, Survival and Scaffolding
Content note: this episode discusses substance use, homelessness and a violent eviction. In 2008, Saul Silva was diagnosed with HIV in Leeds, and told to keep…
HIV: The Morning AfterStephen Hart: Section 28, Survival and the Stage
Content note: this episode includes a detailed account of drug-facilitated sexual assault, rape, and suicidal thoughts. In October 2006, Stephen Hart's drink…
HIV: The Morning AfterLuke Adams: Activism, Addiction and Asylum
In the mid-1980s, at 24, Luke Adams was told he had two years to live. Forty years on, he's a psychologist, ACT UP veteran and recent political refugee from…
HIV: The Morning AfterEmma McAnally: Stigma, Strength and Superpower
Content note: this episode discusses domestic abuse and suicidal thoughts. In 2016, Emma McAnally was diagnosed with HIV in a Scottish sexual health clinic…
HIV: The Morning AfterVeda Lady: Secrets, Sequins, Solidarity
For over a decade, Veda Lady was the most recognisable drag queen in Dublin. They talk to Dan Hall about a childhood spent dodging the word "AIDS", the partner…
HIV: The Morning AfterAdrian Hyyriläinen-Trett: Parliament, Pills and Powerlifting
In 2015, Adrian Hyyriläinen-Trett became the first openly HIV-positive parliamentary candidate in UK history, standing for the Liberal Democrats in Vauxhall…
HIV: The Morning AfterNathaniel Hall: Secrecy, Shame, Standing Ovations
An actor and activist who was diagnosed with HIV at 16, kept the secret for 15 years, turned it into a one-man show that earned 53 five-star reviews, and was…
HIV: The Morning AfterDr Tristan Barber: Prescription, Patient, Pioneer
A leading HIV consultant who went from writing prescriptions to needing them in the summer of 2002 - and became the first person living with HIV to lead the…
HIV: The Morning AfterLouise Vallace: Shame, Silence, Stillness
A Black British-Caribbean woman diagnosed with HIV at 37 who told nobody for ten years - not her children, not her colleagues, not a single friend - and found…
HIV: The Morning AfterReverend Jide Macaulay: Faith, Freedom, Fellowship
A Nigerian-born Anglican priest who spent years praying the gay away, married a woman under church pressure, came out in 1994, was diagnosed with HIV in 2003…
HIV: The Morning AfterIsmail Harerimana: Silence, Sugar, Survival
CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT ISMAIL'S WORK Ismail Harerimana was fourteen before anyone told him what was making him sick. He grew up in the hills of Kisoro in…
HIV: The Morning AfterHamish Noah: Turbulence, Trauma, Turning Points
A man who survived a hijacked plane at 11, spent years numbing himself with drugs and chemsex, was diagnosed with HIV on a comedown in January 2020, and found…
HIV: The Morning AfterWinnie Sseruma: Silence, Scars, Solidarity
A Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in 1988 who went back to Africa to die, arrived in the UK with a CD4 count of one, and built a career spanning 20…
HIV: The Morning AfterSONG: Rethink Rebuild Rise (Rio Calling)
Available now on Spotify and Apple Music. Apple Music / Spotify Profits from sales will go towards plugging the remaining £1k costs incurred in producing the…
HIV: The Morning AfterRio Calling: Isolation
Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Kene Esom (HIV policy & human rights), Dr Laura Waters (HIV/sexual health medicine), Simon Collins (HIV treatment…
HIV: The Morning AfterRio Calling: Women and HIV
CROWDFUNDER LINK Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Sophia Strachan (Sophia Forum), Garry Brough (European AIDS Treatment Group), Dr. Brenda…
HIV: The Morning AfterRio Calling: Medical Progress vs Lived Reality
CROWDFUNDER LINK Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Antonio Flores, Damien Fagan (Gilead), ICWAP, Thorne Harbour Health, Derrick Mapp, Laura Walters (Gilead…
HIV: The Morning AfterRio Calling: Inequality and Intersectionality
CROWDFUNDER LINK Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Andrea Carolina, Fatima Hassan, Derrick Powell, Sophie Strachan, Simon Collins, Eliane Becks…
HIV: The Morning AfterRio Calling: Stigma
CROWDFUNDER LINK Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Carluz, Davide Scalenghe, Eliane Becks Nininahazwe, Joan Stephen, Kene Esom, Pankaj Sethi, Vincent…
HIV: The Morning AfterRio Calling: Global Funding
CROWDFUNDER LINK Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Matthew Hodson, Gus Cairns, Diego Agurto Beroiza, Silvia Petretti. Plus on-site interviews with Simon…
HIV: The Morning AfterTrailer: Rio Calling
Rio Calling is a six-part daily spin-off of HIV: The Morning After, broadcast from inside AIDS 2026 - the biggest HIV conference on the planet. Every day for…
HIV: The Morning AfterAnton Basenko: Addiction, Advocacy, Ammunition
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link A Ukrainian DJ who started injecting heroin at 16 to help him sleep, survived six overdoses on the streets of…
HIV: The Morning AfterEllie Harrison: Diagnosis, Denial, Disclosure
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link A young woman diagnosed with HIV at 21 in 2018 on her 1,199 days of silence, the book of lies she kept to track…
HIV: The Morning AfterLaurence Close: Glamour, Guilt, Glory
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link A fashion industry hair and makeup artist who tested positive for HIV in 1985 and went three decades without…
HIV: The Morning AfterMark S King: Desire, Defiance, Dancing
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link An American HIV journalist and long-term survivor reflects on four decades of living with HIV, from the pre-AIDS…
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Trailer: Series 3
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link A preview of the third series of HIV: The Morning After — ten new interviews with people living with HIV across…
HIV: The Morning AfterCompilation Special: Still Here
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link This is a special compilation episode featuring highlights from Series 1 and 2 of HIV: The Morning After…
HIV: The Morning AfterCompilation Special: Who Gets To Tell This Story?
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link This is a special compilation episode featuring highlights from Series 1 and 2 of HIV: The Morning After…
HIV: The Morning AfterCompilation Special: The People Who Stayed
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link This is a special compilation episode featuring highlights from Series 1 and 2 of HIV: The Morning After…
HIV: The Morning AfterCompilation Special: What the Body Carries
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link This is a special compilation episode featuring highlights from Series 1 and 2 of HIV: The Morning After…
HIV: The Morning AfterCompilation Special: The Waiting Room
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link This is a special compilation episode featuring highlights from Series 1 and 2 of HIV: The Morning After…
HIV: The Morning Afterdan glass: Rage, Resistance, Reconnection
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link dan glass was born in 1983, the year HIV was first identified as HIV rather than the gay plague. They grew up…
HIV: The Morning AfterNikolaj Tange Lange: Porn, Punk, Perspective
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link In 2007, Nikolaj Tange Lange wrote a punk song with the chorus "Gay is the new punk because we don't give a fuck…
HIV: The Morning After“Jan”: Borders, Belonging, Becoming
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link Jan describes himself as a global citizen. He is Turkish, Kurdish, gay, and HIV positive, and he's had to come…
HIV: The Morning AfterEli Fitzgerald: Identity, Isolation, Integration
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link Eli Fitzgerald is 26 years old and has never known life without HIV. There is no before and after, he says…
HIV: The Morning AfterSilvia Petretti: Peers, Power, Persistence
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link Silvia Petretti came to London from Rome in 1986, aged twenty, fleeing grief after her mother's sudden death…
HIV: The Morning AfterDiego Agurto Beroiza: Archives, Activism, Alarm
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link Diego Agurto Beroiza is Chilean, HIV positive, and living in London. When someone in his community dies from…
HIV: The Morning AfterGarry Brough: Peers, Passion, Perseverance
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link Garry Brough grew up in a Welsh mining village in the 1970s and 80s, where being different meant being singled…
HIV: The Morning AfterAngelina Namiba: Motherhood, Mentoring, Movement
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link In 1993, Angelina Namiba was finishing her finals at Manchester Metropolitan University when she fell seriously…
HIV: The Morning AfterAlexander Cheves: Sex, Sovereignty, Survival
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link Alexander Cheves grew up on a 500-acre farm in rural Georgia, raised by evangelical missionary parents who…
HIV: The Morning AfterChris Smith: Diagnosis, Discovery, Defiance
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link In 1987, Chris Smith received an HIV diagnosis and was told he might have months to live. His doctor's advice?…
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Trailer: Series 2
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link Ten episodes of brilliance from ten inspiring people living with HIV. Episode 1 drops Friday 6 February, 2026…
HIV: The Morning AfterMarc Thompson: Resistance, Roots, Resilience
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link The lead commissioner of the London HIV Prevention Programme, diagnosed at 17 in 1986, who didn't know anyone…
HIV: The Morning AfterGus Cairns: Legacy, Loss, Liberation
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link An Oxford graduate who fell in love at first sight in July 1985, was diagnosed with HIV weeks later, and drifted…
HIV: The Morning AfterPeter Willis: Medicine, Malcolm, Mortality
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link An 83-year-old retired GP who treated patients and friends during the epidemic while quietly assuming he was…
HIV: The Morning AfterMatthew Hodson: Science, Sovereignty, Survival
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link One of Britain's most enduring HIV and LGBTQ+ activists, who lived privately with HIV for years before becoming…
HIV: The Morning AfterAnthony Bird: Dancing, Diagnosis, Defiance
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link A graphic designer who went from a back clinic to an AIDS diagnosis in 1995, was hospitalised with PCP at seven…
HIV: The Morning AfterCaroline Guinness: Pioneering, Persistence, Purpose
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link A pioneering HIV advocate diagnosed in 1986 with a three-year-old daughter, who co-founded Positively Women -…
HIV: The Morning AfterMartin Fenerty: Trauma, Time, Transformation
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link A gay man from Liverpool diagnosed with HIV in 1993 at 23, who held suicide as a safety net for years before…
HIV: The Morning AfterJim Vogiatzis: Diagnosis, Defiance, Dogs
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link An HIV survivor and activist diagnosed in 1988 who held the hand of a dying lover, left London Weekend…
HIV: The Morning AfterSusan Cole-Haley: Motherhood, Medicine, Movement
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link A mother of four, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and one of the UK's most influential HIV advocates -…
HIV: The Morning AfterJonathan Blake: Diagnosis, Defiance, Dignity
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link One of the UK's longest-surviving people with HIV, diagnosed in October 1982, on bathhouses in San Francisco…
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Trailer: Series 1
Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link Ten episodes of love, loss and courage from ten inspiring people living with HIV. Episode 1 drops Friday 19…