HIV: The Morning After
Episodes
Compilation Special: The Waiting Room
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special compilation episode featuring highlights from Series 1 and 2 of HIV: The Morning After, released ahead of Series 3 in June 2026.A li...
dan glass: Rage, Resistance, Reconnection
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Nikolaj Tange Lange: Porn, Punk, Perspective
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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....
“Jan”: Borders, Belonging, Becoming
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 identiti...
Eli Fitzgerald: Identity, Isolation, Integration
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Silvia Petretti: Peers, Power, Persistence
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Diego Agurto Beroiza: Archives, Activism, Alarm
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
SummaryDiego Agurto Beroiza is Chilean, HIV positive, and living in London. When someone in his community dies from HIV-related causes, he says, we be...
Garry Brough: Peers, Passion, Perseverance
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Angelina Namiba: Motherhood, Mentoring, Movement
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sum maryIn 1993, Angelina Namiba was finishing her finals at Manchester Metropolitan University when she fell seriously ill. Her GP suggested an HIV t...
Alexander Cheves: Survival, Shame, Self-Love
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
SummaryAlexander Cheves grew up on a 500-acre farm in rural Georgia, raised by evangelical missionary parents who blocked gay websites and warned him ...
Chris Smith: Firsts, Fortitude, Freedom
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Trailer: Series 2
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ten episodes of brilliance from ten inspiring people living with HIV.Episode 1 drops Friday 6 February, 2026.Email: [email protected]:...
Series 2 Coming February 2026
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Po...
Marc Thompson: Community, Change, Compassion
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 blac...
Gus Cairns: Survivor, Storyteller, Strength
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 thro...
Peter Willis: Medicine, Malcolm, Mortality
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Matthew Hodson: Activism, Advocacy, Acceptance
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Hodson represents one of Britain's most influential voices in HIV and LGBTQ+ activism, having lived openly and "shamelessly" with HIV for near...
Anthony Bird: Dancing, Diagnosis, Defiance
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ra...
Caroline Guinness: Pioneering, Persistence, Purpose
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 incl...
Martin Fenerty: Trauma, Time, Transformation
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Seama...
Jim Vogiatzis: Diagnosis, Defiance, Dogs
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Vogiatzis was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 after recognising symptoms in both himself and his partner. Working at London Weekend Television, Jim fac...
Susan Cole-Haley: Motherhood, Medicine, Movement
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Cole-Haley received her HIV diagnosis during routine immigration testing in January 1999, when her children were just five and seven years old. ...
Jonathan Blake: Diagnosis, Defiance, Dignity
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Blake was diagnosed with HIV in October 1982 at age 33, given 2-9 months to live. More than four decades later, he remains one of the UK's lo...
Trailer: Series 1
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ten episodes of love, loss and courage from ten inspiring people living with HIV.Episode 1 drops Friday 19 September, 2025.Email: HIVTheMorningAfter@g...