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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: If this is what the 1980s were really like, maybe they're best forgotten!
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Teenagers, on no account hang on to your diaries and journals as you grow up. Bin them.
You can only feel pity for Dante (Levi Brown), whose inner poetry voice supplies the narration for This Town (BBC1), a coming-of-age drama set amid the ska music scene of Birmingham and Coventry in the early 1980s. Meanwhile, their cousin Michael, a champion Riverdancer in Coventry’s insular Irish community, is being dragged into IRA activity by his leather-coated father, Eamonn (Peter McDonald), who is more interested in the money-making potential of organised terror than the bombing. There are flashes of bitter humour, too: a riot girl setting her petrol-drenched sleeve ablaze when she lights a joint, children laughing as a squaddie aims his rifle at them and shouts, ‘Bang-bang!’
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