Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover

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A love letter to east London, the series is set and filmed in Bow, celebrating the culture, community and creatives that gave birth to a then new genre: grime. Target captures a time before YouTube and Spotify that probably can’t exist again, when sharing new tracks meant pressing dub plate records, and to see what your favourite MCs looked like you had to see them in person.

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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. The 4 eight-part series revolves around Queenie Jenkins, a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman from South London. Steve McQueen’s cinematic commemoration of the Holocaust offers a multidimensional experience full of gravity and sublimity. One scene intercuts the action with increasingly chaotic Polaroids as their night out gets messier and messier; watching it, I felt a pang of wistfulness for my teenage years. It also helps reiterate the fact that there are multiple sides to one story – echoing the variety of backgrounds and personalities in their squad.While the community believes the deaths are accidental, Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise – and is later murdered while on her way to Scotland Yard. Jeremy O Harris (Slave Play) was previously attached but has since parted ways due to creative differences. The series is markedly different from the book and traces the lives of five fictional characters, growing up in the early 2000s, desperate to have their voices heard through music. David Jonsson (Industry, Rye Lane), Morfydd Clark (Lord of the Rings, Saint Maud), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey, After Life), Sinead Matthews (Hullraisers, The Crown), Tom Riley (The Nevers, Ill Behaviour), Douglas Henshall (Shetland, In Plain Sight), Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Wonka), Mark Bonnar (World on Fire, Guilt), Nimra Bucha (Polite Society, Ms Marvel), Tamzin Outhwaite ( The Tower, Ridley Road), Jon Pointing (Big Boys, Plebs), and Phoebe Licorish. A queer Macedonian woman goes to drastic measures to hold her makeshift family together following a tragedy, in idiosyncratic director Goran Stolevski’s new film.

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John and Jane Smith are two strangers who have been placed together by a "mysterious agency" to undertake a series of espionage missions. The five will be joined by Ryan McParland (Derry Girls), Don Gilet (Sherwood), Delove Akra ( Drillin), Marsha Miller (Top Boy), Simon Wolfe (Carnival Row), Marcus Onilude (Big Boys), Jola Olajide (Doctors), Jack Bannon (Endeavour), Jo Martin (Doctor Who), and Cale Cole making his debut. The BBC share: “Grime Kids charts the rise of a fictional group of young adults growing up in the late 90s, dreaming of being able to make their voice heard through grime music. Anyone with even a passing interest in grime music or East London spirit will be well served by Grime Kids. They experience "first loves, disapproving parents and brushes with danger" while attempting to get their music on the radio.Even as he sets the scene, describing for the reader his home borough of Tower Hamlets, his focus is on shared experiences rather than his specific ones. But the real star here is the friendship between the boys, and the two episodes I watched lean into this hard. All the biggest names in grime feature in the book, Wiley, Tinchy Stryder, Skepta, and Risky Roadz among them, and plenty more besides. But on the whole, this is a joyous representation of a very particular slice of time: being young, bored, with your whole life ahead of you and limitless potential at your fingertips. The festival will close with the World Premiere of Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s dystopian drama, The Kitchen.

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It touches on the different approaches to parenting – from the overly strict to the neglectful to the ones incredibly dependent on their children – and how the absence of parental authority can urge young individuals to look for family elsewhere, whether it be through their friends or the idols they look up to. A group of kids in the 90s had a dream to make their voice heard – and this book documents their seminal impact on today’s pop culture.Led by a cast of rising young talent, Grime Kids 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 making his debut TV appearance.

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Isobel's arrival in London "creates mounting tensions, unravels bonds, and exposes secrets with shocking and tragic consequences", according to a synopsis. Fiona Campbell, Controller, BBC Three says: “It’s a great pleasure to announce the incredibly talented cast of Grime Kids - a fantastic new story rich with life, told through the eyes of teens in the best summer of their lives.They were all just grime kids on the block back then, and didn’t realise they were to become pioneers of an international music revolution. Every feature and series will screen to audiences in the UK for the very first time, with many shown publicly for the first time ever anywhere in the world. If you enjoyed this you may enjoy our review of Dan Hancox’ book Inner City Pressure and the BBC 3 Grime Kids adaptation.