This Town
An Extended family and four young people are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late '70s and early '80s which united black, white and Asian youths.
Episodes
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E1 · Episode #1.1
58 min1981, and Birmingham explodes. Dante, in love, wanders into a riot. He finds himself in a new world, surprising, dangerous, but full of opportunity.
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E2 · Episode #1.2
58 minA funeral brings together different sides of Dante's family - Irish rebels and Jamaicans - and reunites him with his cousin Bardon, who can sing.
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E3 · Episode #1.3
58 minThere's no escape from the past. Skinhead Tyro seeks out Dante to avenge his beating, and Special Branch target Bardon and see an opportunity to use Gregory.
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E4 · Episode #1.4
58 minJeannie finds a warehouse where the band start to rehearse and forge an identity. Gregory schemes to keep his brother and Bardon safe.
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E5 · Episode #1.5
58 minDante seeks out new experiences to fuel his songwriting, embracing danger as he exposes himself to feelings and risks. Eamonn threatens to drag Bardon back into his dark world.
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E6 · Episode #1.6
58 minThe pressures that formed the band threaten to destroy it before it gets on stage, bedeviled by their inner demons as much as by outside forces.