Frontline Doctors, BBC1: Chris and Xand Van Tulleken witness the winter migrant crisis in Lesbos, Berlin, and Calais

The twin brothers venture across Europe to report on the humanitarian crisis
On the frontline: Dr Xand van Tulleken helps refugees out of a dinghy in Lesbos
BBC/Little Gem Media/Vito D'ettorre
Ben Travis7 March 2016

Identical twin doctors Xand and Chris Van Tulleken explore the severity and the humanity of the migrant crisis in this film for the BBC.

The pair shot the one-hour documentary just two months ago, and travelled across Europe to help and report on those who have made hugely treacherous journeys to find some semblance of safety, portraying the staggering scope of the problem.

As it currently stands, Europe is receiving the highest number of migrants since World War II, with more than a million arriving last year.

While these figures are often seen in panicked headlines, the Van Tullekens show the people behind the numbers.

They meet boatloads of migrants who have crossed the sea from Turkey to Lesbos and need urgent medical attention, a man whose desperately-needed wheelchair was taken by smugglers, and those living in the makeshift shelters of the Calais ‘jungle’, as the brothers survey the vast scale of the crisis.

The camps on France’s northern coast are migrants’ best hope of getting to the UK – but the cramped and unsanitary conditions exacerbated by overcrowding mean that those who remain there are far from safe.

Xand and Chris’s film offers an honest and upsetting insight into a very human crisis.

BBC One, 9pm

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