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This Town: new drama charts the influence of ska on inner city kids during bleak Thatcher years

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This Town is the new BBC drama from Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight. Set mainly in Birmingham and Coventry, against the backdrop of 1981's civil unrest. It uses the formation of a band as the hook for viewers and a potential escape mechanism for its young protagonists. This Town focuses on the two-tone music movement that swept the early 1980s.

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This Town: new drama charts the influence of ska on inner city kids during bleak Thatcher years

This Town, the new BBC drama from Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight, revisits the Midlands setting, also doubling as a somewhat backhanded tribute to the region and a paean to the two-tone music – an amalgam of ska, punk and reggae – that emerged from it. The backdrop for Knight’s heroes is the aftershocks of 1970s industrial strife – chiefly Margaret Thatcher’s uncompromising response to the way de-industrialisation drove up unemployment a…

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