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Small Axe

Series 1

Lovers Rock

Duration: 1 hour, 9 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One East

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Lovers Rock tells a fictional story of young love at a blues party in 1980. The film is an ode to the romantic reggae genre called lovers rock, and to the black youth who found freedom and love in its sound at London house parties, at a time when they were unwelcome in white nightclubs. Show less

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