To coincide with Pride month, an innovative new BBC documentary series is giving viewers a valuable insight into the reality of the Aids crisis through those who lived through it.

Bringing to life the moving first-hand stories of gay men with the disease throughout the 80s and 90s, three-part series Aids: The Unheard Tapes sees young actors lip-sync along to the original voice recordings in a real-time oral history project.

Starting with the death of Heaven barman Terry Higgins in 1982, who was the first recorded Aids death in Britain 40 years ago, the series explores how pioneering medics and the gay community worked together to raise awareness, fight prejudice and ultimately find ways to treat the devastating virus.

Aids: The Unheard Tapes is the moving new BBC documentary telling the story of the British Aids crisis