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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 services

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01:01:45

dan glass: Rage, Resistance, Reconnection

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/04/09

Summarydan glass was born in 1983, the year HIV was first identified as HIV rather than the gay plague. They grew up under Thatcher's Section 28 with only EastEnders' Mark Fowler and tombstone adverts for reference. Death, isolation, internalised stigma - that was all HIV meant. When dan was diagnosed in their early twenties, they got drunk, went to a friend's house, cried, and she helped them to the toilet. The next morning, they told their boss it wasn't flu after all.For five years, dan refused

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44:27

Nikolaj Tange Lange: Porn, Punk, Perspective

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/04/02

SummaryIn 2007, Nikolaj Tange Lange wrote a punk song with the chorus "Gay is the new punk because we don't give a fuck about dying while we're young." A few months later, he tested positive for HIV. He was 27, newly arrived in Berlin, and had just discovered a city where condoms were already the exception in dark rooms and sex clubs. The song, it turned out, was prophecy.Nikolaj is a Danish writer and musician who has spent nearly two decades navigating the gap between what the world thinks HIV

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51:00

“Jan”: Borders, Belonging, Becoming

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/03/27

SummaryJan describes himself as a global citizen. He is Turkish, Kurdish, gay, and HIV positive, and he's had to come out about each of those identities separately. Growing up in Ankara, he learned early to hide parts of himself. Kurdish was spoken at home but never taught to the children. It was too dangerous, too divisive. By fourteen, Jan had figured out that status and achievement could compensate for ethnic complexity. By the time he realised he was gay, he understood that no amount of status

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37:00

Eli Fitzgerald: Identity, Isolation, Integration

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/03/20

SummaryEli Fitzgerald is 26 years old and has never known life without HIV. There is no before and after, he says. There just is. He was taking seven pills a day as a child, alarms set for morning and night, unable to leave for school until he'd taken his meds. When the regime dropped to three pills, it felt life-changing. Those pills became his one certainty, the one thing he had control over.Eli came out as a trans man at around the same time he was navigating adolescence with a diagnosis he

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Silvia Petretti: Peers, Power, Persistence

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/03/13

SummarySilvia Petretti came to London from Rome in 1986, aged twenty, fleeing grief after her mother's sudden death. The plan was a two-week English course. She never went back. London in the late 80s was vibrant with clubs, music, warehouse parties, the summer of love. She settled in Brixton, fell in love with Afro-Caribbean culture, studied African languages and arts, and began promoting drumming and dance.In 1997, while in Rome caring for her father who had Alzheimer's, Silvia contracted cerebral

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28:55

Diego Agurto Beroiza: Archives, Activism, Alarm

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/03/06

SummaryDiego Agurto Beroiza is Chilean, HIV positive, and living in London. When someone in his community dies from HIV-related causes, he says, we become incomplete. So he's building a museum. Not a building, but a living archive made of testimonies performed on stage. He calls it the Living Museum of Emotional Archives, built on a simple idea: when someone dies, their emotional archive shouldn't disappear with them.This conversation, recorded while Diego was in Santiago, covers the shadow of

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01:05:47

Garry Brough: Peers, Passion, Perseverance

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/02/27

SummaryGarry Brough grew up in a Welsh mining village in the 1970s and 80s, where being different meant being singled out. He was teased and tormented daily, long before he knew he was gay. His father, the local football team manager, kept trying to take him to matches. It never took. At eleven, Garry dropped Welsh and took Italian, reasoning that a foreign language was his ticket out. He assumed the rest of the UK was as suffocating as the valleys. Perhaps another country would be better.London,

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44:02

Angelina Namiba: Motherhood, Mentoring, Movement

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/02/20

Sum maryIn 1993, Angelina Namiba was finishing her finals at Manchester Metropolitan University when she fell seriously ill. Her GP suggested an HIV test. She took the referral paper, put it under her bed, and didn't go. When he wrote again, underlining "strongly" in red, she went for the test but never collected the results. She already knew what HIV looked like. Her brother, studying in London, had been in and out of specialist wards with Kaposi's sarcoma, meningitis, and epileptic fits. He died

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01:15:53

Alexander Cheves: Sex, Sovereignty, Survival

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/02/13

SummaryAlexander Cheves grew up on a 500-acre farm in rural Georgia, raised by evangelical missionary parents who blocked gay websites and warned him that choosing this "lifestyle" meant choosing death. At sixteen, he decided to come out anyway, convinced he was trading a long life for a brief, honest one. He tested positive for HIV at twenty, in 2013, during his final year of college.What followed wasn't the manageable adjustment the medical timeline might suggest. In the six months after

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40:37

Chris Smith: Firsts, Fortitude, Freedom

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/02/06

SummaryIn 1987, Chris Smith received an HIV diagnosis and was told he might have months to live. His doctor's advice? Learn to live with uncertainty. Thirty-eight years later, he's the Chancellor of Cambridge University.This episode traces Chris's journey through the darkest years of the epidemic whilst serving in the heart of British politics. He recounts the moment he came out as gay at a Rugby rally in 1984, his hands shaking, only to receive a standing ovation twenty seconds into his speech. He

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03:40

Trailer: Series 2

HIV: The Morning After ·

2026/01/02

Ten episodes of brilliance from ten inspiring people living with HIV.Episode 1 drops Friday 6 February, 2026.Email: HIVTheMorningAfter@gmail.comLinks:Other work from Producer Dan Hall.Positively UK - A peer-led organisation offering support and advice for people living with HIV, including women, youth, and migrants.The Love Tank - An organisation focusing on wellbeing of queer communities, especially Black and brown people, through projects like PrEPster and The Grass Is Always Grindr.Positive East

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Series 2 Coming February 2026

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/11/28

Series 2 of HIV: The Morning After will arrive on 6 February 2026. Guests include activist Dan Glass, author and sex columnist Alexander Cheves and Positively UK Chief Executive Silvia Petretti. Join them and other inspiring guests for a new ten-part series telling the stories of people living with HIV today.Dan HallEmail: HIVTheMorningAfter@gmail.com

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59:55

Marc Thompson: Community, Change, Compassion

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/11/21

Marc Thompson was diagnosed with HIV at just 17 in 1986, during the epidemic's most frightening early days when information wasn't reaching young black gay men in South London's vibrant but segregated queer scene. His journey from isolated teenager to influential activist illustrates the power of transforming personal experience into systemic change.Feeling like the only young black gay man in HIV services, Marc recognised the vital importance of representation and community building, establishing

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44:34

Gus Cairns: Survivor, Storyteller, Strength

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/11/14

Gus Cairns was diagnosed with HIV in 1985 at age 29, having met the love of his life, Paul, who was already positive. An Oxford graduate drifting through London's gay scene, Gus wanted to share Paul's status, believing it meant they could have unprotected sex without consequences. What followed was a devastating education in AIDS as Paul slowly died over four and a half years, succumbing in January 1990 after insisting on showing Princess Diana his Kaposi's sarcoma lesions to reveal "what it was

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27:43

Peter Willis: Medicine, Malcolm, Mortality

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/11/07

Dr Peter Willis brings a unique dual perspective to HIV - as both physician and patient during the epidemic's most challenging years. Working as a GP in the early days when HIV meant certain death, Peter witnessed the professional helplessness of medicine whilst quietly assuming his own positive status after his 16-year partner Malcolm showed clear signs of AIDS. Malcolm refused testing and died in 1994, leaving Peter to navigate his own eventual diagnosis in 1995, just as combination therapy

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48:59

Matthew Hodson: Activism, Advocacy, Acceptance

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/10/31

Matthew Hodson represents one of Britain's most influential voices in HIV and LGBTQ+ activism, having lived openly and "shamelessly" with HIV for nearly three decades. His journey began in the 1980s when coming out coincided with the emergence of AIDS, leading him to frontline activism against Section 28 and homophobic legislation. After avoiding testing for years due to fear and the lack of effective treatment, Matthew received his HIV diagnosis in 1997, just as combination therapy was

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43:28

Anthony Bird: Dancing, Diagnosis, Defiance

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/10/23

Anthony Bird's HIV journey began dramatically in 1995 when he went from seroconversion to hospitalisation with PCP in just 4-5 months, an unusually rapid progression that fascinated medical consultants. Working as a graphic designer in London and deeply embedded in the vibrant gay club scene centred around Brixton's legendary Fridge nightclub, Tony's diagnosis came at 28 during the height of the pre-combination therapy era. His story captures the terror of thinking he wouldn't live to see 30,

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50:51

Caroline Guinness: Pioneering, Persistence, Purpose

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/10/16

Caroline Guinness was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, when she had a three-year-old daughter and was working in the music video industry with clients including Queen, David Bowie, and Duran Duran. After a doctor performed an HIV test without permission during cervical cancer treatment, Caroline initially refused to know the result before ultimately being told she was positive for what was then called HTLV-III. Given roughly five years to live, Caroline transformed her private struggle into public

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46:19

Martin Fenerty: Trauma, Time, Transformation

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/10/09

Martin Fenerty was diagnosed with HIV in 1993 at just 23 years old, following a severe facial herpes outbreak that led to testing at Liverpool's Seaman's Dispensary. Told he had 5-10 years to live, Martin found himself navigating early adulthood whilst facing his own mortality, complicated by family rejection over his sexuality and a relationship with an HIV-negative partner. His journey through the pre-combination therapy years reveals the psychological impact of "waiting to die" - living in limbo

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38:45

Jim Vogiatzis: Diagnosis, Defiance, Dogs

HIV: The Morning After ·

2025/10/02

Jim Vogiatzis was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 after recognising symptoms in both himself and his partner. Working at London Weekend Television, Jim faced the terror of early HIV diagnosis when it truly was a death sentence for most. His journey through the brutal AZT trials, watching friends die, finding love with Stuart (a "sexy skinhead" with a Geordie accent), and ultimately surviving into the combination therapy era reveals the resilience required to navigate HIV's darkest years. From caring for

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