This Town — Season 1
Birmingham 1981: a city on edge, a music scene set to explode and a fight for your future.
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Birmingham 1981: a city on edge, a music scene set to explode and a fight for your future.
Episodes (6)
1. Episode 1
1.0Aired 31 March 2024 • 57 min
1981, and Birmingham explodes. Dante, in love, wanders into a riot. He finds himself in a new world, surprising, dangerous, but full of opportunity.
2. Episode 2
Aired 1 April 2024 • 58 min
A funeral brings together different sides of Dante’s family – Irish rebels and Jamaicans – and reunites him with his cousin Bardon, who can sing.
3. Episode 3
1.0Aired 7 April 2024 • 58 min
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.
4. Episode 4
1.0Aired 14 April 2024 • 58 min
Jeannie finds a warehouse where the band start to rehearse and forge an identity. Gregory schemes to keep his brother and Bardon safe.
5. Episode 5
Aired 21 April 2024 • 58 min
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.
6. Episode 6
1.0Aired 28 April 2024 • 58 min
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.