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Black Earth Rising

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Kate Ashby finds the tragic shadow of her past impossible to escape.

A child of genocide, lawyer Kate is fighting for justice - but facing threats and cover-ups, what is the truth? Hugo Blick's tense thriller with Michaela Coel and John Goodman.

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Black Earth Rising: Series 1

John Goodman

Michaela Coel

Noma Dumezweni

Ronald Guttman

Tyrone Huggins

Lucian Msamati

Tamara Tunie

Olivier Rabourdin

Pascal Laurent

Serge Hazanavicius

Aure Atika

Treva Etienne

James Lailey

Robin Weaver

Hugo Blick

Malou Coindreau

Nancy Crane

Adrian Schiller

Nicholas Beveney

Kathryn Hunter

Michael Gould

James Clyde

Greg Brenman

Abi Bach

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Black Earth Rising: Series 1: Episode 4: A Bowl of Cornflakes

A Bowl of Cornflakes

Episode 4

Episode 4: A Bowl of Cornflakes

BBC Two - Black Earth Rising, Series 1, A Bowl of Cornflakes

A notorious war criminal appears in the UK, creating tensions between Kate and Michael.

Drama series. Kate and Michael are stunned to learn a notorious genocidaire is now in the UK. Attempts to bring him to justice drive a wedge between the two.

Kate and Michael finish their work on Alice's case in France but are shocked when an indicted Rwandan and Congolese war criminal, Patrice Ganimana, implicated in the Genocide, arrives in the UK. Excited by the chance to prosecute him, Michael is unsettled to learn that an old rival is handling his defence. Meanwhile this new arrival prompts Alice Munezero to delay her own return to Rwanda. As difficulties multiply for an extradition of Ganimana to the International Criminal Court, Kate and Michael's relationship begins to fray.

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As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

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