Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover

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But the real star here is the friendship between the boys, and the two episodes I watched lean into this hard. As catastrophic floods submerge Britain, a young woman and her newborn baby struggle to find safe haven in a crumbling, dangerous society. Every feature and series will screen to audiences in the UK for the very first time, with many shown publicly for the first time ever anywhere in the world. Target captures a time before YouTube and Spotify that probably can’t exist again, when sharing new tracks meant pressing dub plate records, and to see what your favourite MCs looked like you had to see them in person.

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Even as he sets the scene, describing for the reader his home borough of Tower Hamlets, his focus is on shared experiences rather than his specific ones. The series is markedly different from the book and traces the lives of five fictional characters, growing up in the early 2000s, desperate to have their voices heard through music. If you enjoyed this you may enjoy our review of Dan Hancox’ book Inner City Pressure and the BBC 3 Grime Kids adaptation. A group of kids in the 90s had a dream to make their voice heard – and this book documents their seminal impact on today’s pop culture.

They fled their home town together when they were 16 but ten years later, they are no longer part of one another's lives – until "an unexpected path brings one sister back to the town from which they ran away".

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Those young people will be portrayed by up-and-coming stars: Shanu Hazzan (EastEnders, The Gentleman), Juwon Adedokun (We Love Moses, Damilola, Our Loved Boy), Gabriel Robinson (Casualty, Silent Witness), Tienne Simon (Silent Witness) and Yus Jamal Crookes, who’s making his debut TV appearance. This helps emphasise the theme of these young boys as constantly tied together by their friendship and love for music. Additional cast is as follows: Bobby Gordon ( Hollyoaks), Arthur Darvill (The Sandman) and Beth Hayes ( Black Mirror).

While the community believes the deaths are accidental, Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise – and is later murdered while on her way to Scotland Yard. Check out more of our Drama coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to see what's on tonight. Fiona Campbell, Controller, BBC Three says: “It’s a great pleasure to announce the incredibly talented cast of Grime Kids - a fantastic new story rich with life, told through the eyes of teens in the best summer of their lives. The boys are awestruck by the wall-to-wall designer labels, the famous faces, the music, and the girls - one girl in particular for Dane (and Kai).