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The life of Alex Wheatle
The real-life Alex Wheatle and the cast of the film tell the story of the award-winning writer, who having spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home, was sent to live in Brixton aged 15, and jailed after the Brixton uprising of 1981.
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