29 min

Episode 1: The Fuse is Lit Brixton: Flames on the Frontline

    • History

The childhoods of a group of kids in Brixton are punctured by the threat of racism. That realisation changes their lives - and sets them on a course to the Brixton riots years later.
This podcast includes strong language, racist terms and descriptions of violence.
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Credits:
Presenter: Big Narstie
Producer: Ben Robinson
Editor: Gail Champion
Executive Producer: Natasha Johansson
Sound Design: Wayne Parkes and Sam Turner
Additional production: Jane Andrews and Annabel Deas
Research: Derrick Bennett and Imogen Rhodes
Digital Producers: Stuart Birch, Eleanor Layhe and John Watts
Additional Archive: from The Museum of London
Story Consultant: John Yorke
With thanks to Paul Field

Dramatisation:
by Roy Williams
Tony Cealy played by Sheyi Cole
Produced by Lorna Newman and Simon Highfield

Series Producer: Ben Robinson
Series Editor: Gail Champion

The childhoods of a group of kids in Brixton are punctured by the threat of racism. That realisation changes their lives - and sets them on a course to the Brixton riots years later.
This podcast includes strong language, racist terms and descriptions of violence.
----------

Credits:
Presenter: Big Narstie
Producer: Ben Robinson
Editor: Gail Champion
Executive Producer: Natasha Johansson
Sound Design: Wayne Parkes and Sam Turner
Additional production: Jane Andrews and Annabel Deas
Research: Derrick Bennett and Imogen Rhodes
Digital Producers: Stuart Birch, Eleanor Layhe and John Watts
Additional Archive: from The Museum of London
Story Consultant: John Yorke
With thanks to Paul Field

Dramatisation:
by Roy Williams
Tony Cealy played by Sheyi Cole
Produced by Lorna Newman and Simon Highfield

Series Producer: Ben Robinson
Series Editor: Gail Champion

29 min

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