BBC1 orders Uprising trio examining series of 1980s events
Steve McQueen’s latest BBC project is a three-parter doc series examining a trio of generation-defining historical events in 1981.
With Small Axe spin-off doc Subnormal set to TX next week, McQueen will direct and exec produce Rogan Productions/Lammas Park/Turbine Studios’ Uprising for BBC1.
The series will examine three events from 1981 – the January 1981 New Cross Fire, Black People’s Day of Action two months later and the April Brixton riots, revealing how the events interviewed and defined race relations for a generation.
McQueen will share directing duties with Rogan boss James Rogan, who has also worked on Subnormal and another Small Axe spin-off, BBC2’s Black Power: A British Story of Resistance.
Rogan will exec produce alongside Nancy Bornat, Soleta Rogan, Tracey Scoffield, Anna Smith Tenser and David Tanner, with BBC chief content officer Charlotte Moore and head of commissioning, documentaries, history and religion, Clare Sillery, ordering the show.
Moore said: “With his visionary genius as a filmmaker, Steve has created an incredibly important and evocative series that charts events that have defined race relations in Britain today, giving a voice to the people at the heart of these stories.”
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