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The Front Line

Uprising Series 1
Episode 3 of 3

How tensions between the black community and the police boiled over into some of the biggest riots in British history, from Brixton to Toxteth, while the cause of the New Cross fire remained unknown.

After the New Cross fire and the Black People’s Day of Action, tensions between the community and the police escalated when a massive stop-and-search operation was launched, targeting black people on the streets of Brixton. In April, the situation boiled over into one of the biggest riots in British history. Buildings were burned down and hundreds of police injured. Riots then flared up all over the country, from Southall to Toxteth, but by the year's end, the people of New Cross were no closer to knowing who started the New Cross fire or why - and a lack of answers and justice has lingered over the case ever since.

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Fri 21 Oct 2022 00:50
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:02

    The Revolutionaries

    Nuclear Bomb

  • 00:04

    Johnnie Clarke

    Move Out A Babylon

  • 00:06

    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Could You Be Loved

  • 00:08

    Sugar Minott

    Frontline (Line Dub)

  • 00:09

    Gregory Isaacs

    Night Nurse

  • 00:24

    Dennis Brown

    Revolution

  • 00:28

    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Slave Driver

  • 00:46

    Linton Kwesi Johnson

    Di Great Insohreckshan

  • 00:53

    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Redemption Song

Credits

Director Steve McQueen
Director James Rogan
Series Producer Helen Bart
Executive Producer Steve McQueen
Executive Producer Nancy Bornat
Executive Producer James Rogan
Executive Producer Soleta Rogan
Executive Producer Tracey Scoffield

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