This Town

This Town

Created by Steven Knight

On BBC One

20241 season6 episodes58 min6.7 / 10

A warm, music-driven family saga set in the ska and two-tone scene of 1980s Coventry and Birmingham, balancing youthful energy and social unrest with intimate character bonds.

An extended family and four young people are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, uniting black, white and Asian youths.

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