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I will never forget the brutal realities of the pandemic - This England brushes them aside

I saw abject failure, arbitrary death and utter helplessness. This is quite a different story, says former ambulance driver and academic Rod Dacombe

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2022

October streaming guide: Kenneth Branagh as PM, The White Lotus, witches and vampires galore

Kenneth Branagh plays former UK prime minister Boris Johnson in This England, there's a host of Halloween shows and The White Lotus goes to Italy

The New Daily · Sep 29, 2022

This England review – so sympathetic to Boris Johnson it is absolutely bananas

Kenneth Branagh’s impression of the former coward-in-chief is spot on, but Michael Winterbottom’s Covid drama is leaden, artless and a disservice to all those who died

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2022

Boris Johnson may not be flattered by portrayal in This England, says director

The series will follow the former prime minister during the first weeks of the pandemic response

Evening Standard · Sep 21, 2022

Johnson may not be flattered by his portrayal in This England, says director

The series will follow the former prime minister during the first weeks of the pandemic response.

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2022

Kenneth Branagh hits back at complaints Boris Johnson Covid drama is ‘too soon’

Actor portrays the former prime minister in the new drama ‘This England’

The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2022

What links This England to Angelina Jolie, via Matt Hancock?

With the five-part drama coming to screens soon, we go down the pandemic rabbit hole with Michael Winterbottom, Daniel Pearl and Kenneth Branagh

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2022

Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson revealed in This England teaser

Sky Atlantic series follows PM’s tumultuous first months in No 10 as he grapples with pandemic

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2022

Michael Winterbottom: ‘This is a film we made for people in Gaza’

Eleven Days in May, by Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawwaf in Gaza, focuses on the children who died in last year’s war.

Al Jazeera · May 10, 2022

Eleven Days in May review – unflinching homage to children killed in Gaza last year

Mohammed Sawwaf and Michael Winterbottom’s documentary takes a deeply personal approach to the young lives lost in May’s bombings

The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2022