Aired: Jul 20, 2021In the early hours of 18 January 1981, in a house in south London, a birthday...
Uprising
Season 1 Episode 3: The Front Line
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 we...
