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This Town

Drama, Music · 2024 · Rated 7.7/10

Last aired: S1 E6, Episode 6 · 2024-03-31

This Town tells the story of an extended family and four young people who 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.

Cast

Nicholas Pinnock Deuce Williams

David Dawson Robbie Carmen

Levi Brown Dante Williams

Jordan Bolger Gregory Williams

Ben Rose Bardon Quinn

Eve Austin Jeannie Keefe

Peter McDonald Eamonn Quinn

Michelle Dockery Estella Williams

Freya Parks Fiona

Stefan Asante-Boateng Wire

John Heffernan Commander Bentley

SA Shyvonne Ahmmad Matty

Geraldine James Marie

Season 1

E1 Episode 1 2024-03-31 · 58 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.

E2 Episode 2 2024-03-31 · 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.

E3 Episode 3 2024-03-31 · 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.

E4 Episode 4 2024-03-31 · 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.

E5 Episode 5 2024-03-31 · 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.

E6 Episode 6 2024-03-31 · 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.

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