PSA: Storyville documentary: If The Streets Were On Fire

Its just been added to Storyville on player.

A really interesting documentary on Bike Stormz, who I'd neve rheard of before, trying to use cycling to prevent knife crime and gang culture in London. Its pretty inspiring and quite depressing in equal measure but well worth a viewing. Some of the riding by the kids is unreal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001r3gj/storyville-if-the-streets-were-on-fire

This is London from an exhilarating, rarely seen perspective. With knife violence rising, social activist Mac creates BikeStormz, a movement for kids across the city to express themselves beyond any threats of violence.

Groups of young people glide through the capital on their bikes, doing wheelies, tricks and death-defying acrobatics, but as they come together and find ways to express themselves through biking - the kind of liberation that surfers and skateboarders eulogise - they are challenged with the threat of arrest by the police and accusations of antisocial behaviour.