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Brixton: Flames on the Frontline - A podcast by BBC Radio 5 Live
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Forty years ago, Brixton burned. It was the people versus the police as riots broke out over a spring weekend.Big Narstie speaks to the people involved to reveal the causes of the violence.A series of injustices shaped and tainted people’s lives and caused resentment to grow until it couldn’t be contained.The uprising changed the national conversations on identity and race and was a catalyst for changes to policing across the UK.Big Narstie explores the impact of the riots on individual lives - and on the whole of society - in the new podcast ‘Brixton: Flames on the Frontline’.Coming soon.