This Town
This Town
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This Town

6.7 / 10
2024
1 season
6 episodes
Drama

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, uniting black, white and Asian youths.

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Birmingham 1981: a city on edge, a music scene set to explode and a fight for your future.

  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    1.0
    31-03-202457m

    1981, and Birmingham explodes. Dante, in love, wanders into a riot. He finds himself in a new world, surprising, dangerous, but full of opportunity.

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    01-04-202458m

    A funeral brings together different sides of Dante’s family – Irish rebels and Jamaicans – and reunites him with his cousin Bardon, who can sing.

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    1.0
    07-04-202458m

    There'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.

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    1.0
    14-04-202458m

    Jeannie finds a warehouse where the band start to rehearse and forge an identity. Gregory schemes to keep his brother and Bardon safe.

  • Episode 5

    5.Episode 5

    21-04-202458m

    Dante 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.

  • Episode 6

    6.Episode 6

    1.0
    28-04-202458m

    The pressures that formed the band threaten to destroy it before it gets on stage, bedevilled by their inner demons as much as by outside forces.

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