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    Choose Life: Edinburgh's Battle Against AIDS

    In the 1980s Edinburgh was dubbed as the ‘AIDS capital of Europe’ and on the frontline as a terrifying new disease arrived. In this landmark documentary we examine the ten-year period between 1979 and 1989 meeting those doctors, heroin addicts, police and locals caught up in events they could barely understand. This film reveals how events thousands of miles away at the beginning of the 1980s had a massive impact on the Capital and the rest of Scotland.



    Festival
    Celtic Media Festival 2021
    Title
    Choose Life: Edinburgh's Battle Against AIDS
    Title in English
    Choose Life: Edinburgh's Battle Against AIDS
    Entry Category
    History
    Produced By
    Two Rivers Media
    Producer
    Stephen Bennett
    Directed By
    Stephen Bennett
    Writer
    Stephen Bennett
    Broadcaster
    BBC