This Town review: A new Steven Knight tale that feels deeply personal
“This town,” sang The Specials in 1981, “is coming like a ghost town.” The song, by the Coventry-based ska revival band, became anthem of urban decay during the Thatcher era. Music – and only music, it seemed – could speak to the way that . This is the milieu of , a new six-part BBC One series from that celebrates how, at the margins of society, music is not a distraction but an escape.
