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Steve McQueen on his series Small Axe and racism in the Metropolitan Police

For the past 12 years, the Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen has been working towards addressing what he calls the β€œweird absence” of black people from British television drama and stories of the black British experience.

As a child of the Windrush generation, McQueen has made an anthology of films for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ and Amazon under the banner of β€˜Small Axe’ β€” about the West Indian community in London from the 1960s-1980s. The series explores the extraordinary and every day: injustices, riots, police brutality and racism but also the cultural and family traditions and the food and music of the time.

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8 minutes