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Teenage kicks!

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March 30, 2024

Three troubled young men from the Midlands get caught up in the ska music scene in 1981...

-  HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN, VICTORIA WILSON

Teenage kicks!

Easter Sunday & Easter Monday, 9pm, BBC1 Drama (box set, BBC iPlayer)

Coventry band The Specials topped the UK singles charts in 1981 with Ghost Town, a song about alienated youth, violence and urban blight.

Now, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, who grew up in the Midlands, is revisiting early 1980s Birmingham and Coventry in a six-part drama about youngsters who form a band in the burgeoning ska-music scene, against a backdrop of social unrest.

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