Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover

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Grime Kids follows a group of teenagers using music to share their voices, whilst navigating growing up in the 90s.

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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. A new BBC Three drama will explore the emergence of grime music from subculture to international phenomenon.

It’s a real testament to how far UK music has come over the years, which is something that needs to be celebrated. Steve McQueen’s cinematic commemoration of the Holocaust offers a multidimensional experience full of gravity and sublimity.

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One moment they’re drinking alcohol for the first time ever (“I’ll have a sherry,” Bayo innocently tells the bartender); the next, they’re getting kicked out of a gig and watching their favourite artists perform through the window.In line with this, the series is suffused with a lovely playfulness, from the banter between Dane and his crush Genevieve (Delove Akra) right down to the camerawork: blurry glimpses abound of artists doing their stuff through a forest of shoulders, spliced in with close-ups of the boys’ starstruck faces.