Empire State of Mind

Empire State of Mind

Documentary 2021

Available on Channel 4

Writer Sathnam Sanghera travels from Brighton to Edinburgh, exploring the effect of the British Empire on modern Britain, and examines its most contentious legacy, racism.

Documentary 2021

Starring Sathnam Sanghera

EPISODE 1

Racism

Writer Sathnam Sanghera travels from Brighton to Edinburgh, exploring the effect of the British Empire on modern Britain. In his hometown of Wolverhampton, he examines racism and in Brighton, he looks at his Sikh heritage.

47 min · 20 Nov 2021
EPISODE 2

Identity

Sathnam Sanghera travels across Britain to explore how our misunderstanding of our imperial history confuses us about our national identity. He examines multi-culturalism, culture wars, the legacies of Empire and his own confused sense of identity.

47 min · 27 Nov 2021

Sathnam Sanghera

Host
Helen Nixon

Director
Fred Windsor-Clive

Producer
Henry Singer

Producer
Susannah Price

Producer

About

Empire State of Mind

DOCUMENTARY

Writer Sathnam Sanghera travels from Brighton to Edinburgh, exploring the effect of the British Empire on modern Britain, and examines its most contentious legacy, racism.

Information

Studio: C4
Released: 2021

Languages

Subtitles: English (United Kingdom) (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.