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   Alex Wheatle tells the true story of the award-winning writer who turned his life around after being jailed over the Brixton riots in 1981.

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   Alex Wheatle, part of the #SmallAxe anthology by Steve McQueen, is the true story of the award-winning writer who spent his childhood in a mostly White...

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   The latest title in Steve McQueen's Small Axe series brings the viewer through the life story of British novelist Alex Wheatle.

5. time.com › 5919375The True Story Behind Small Axe: Alex Wheatle | TIME

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   • Alex Wheatle’S Early Life
   • The 1981 Brixton Uprising
   • Wheatle’S Experience in Prison and as A Successful Writer

   Wheatle is today an accomplished and award-winning author, having written more than a dozen books, including children’s and young adult novels, as well as writing and performing a play about his life titled Uprising. But parts of his childhood were deeply painful and have been difficult to revisit and process. In 2014, he spoke out about the system...

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   At the same time, Wheatle was living during a period of tense race relations in Britain; these experiences have informed his writing, particularly in his early novels Brixton Rock and East of Acre Lane. The uprising in Brixton in April 1981 resulted from a mixture of underlying tensions, including disproportionate and racist policing of young Black...

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   Wheatle was arrested after the uprising and sentenced to a four-month prison sentence for his participation. It was there that he met his cellmate, Simeon, who would become a huge influence on the young Wheatle, who was carrying bitterness and anger about what had happened to him during his childhood and adolescence. “Slowly and surely, I began to ...

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   Apr 11, 2021 · This is (Small Axe) Alex Wheatle talking about what it was like being a black kid in a children’s home Nels Abbey and Tasha Jannine were superb. Please...

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   Dec 6, 2020 · The true story of award-winning writer Alex Wheatle, who spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home and was jailed after the Brixton uprising of 1981. Show more. Available...

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   Nov 30, 2020 · Subscribe and 🔔 to OFFICIAL BBC Trailers 👉 https://bit.ly/2XU2vpOStream original BBC programmes FIRST on BBC iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ The true st...

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