August 2021 sees the 10th anniversary of the police shooting of Mark Duggan on the streets of Tottenham and the nationwide riots that followed.   

But what is it about Tottenham? Over the last four decades, more than any other area of Britain more than St Pauls in Bristol, more than Toxteth in Liverpool, more even than Hackney or Notting Hill or Brixton in London, Tottenham has become synonymous with violent clashes between the police and the Black community - violent clashes that often spill out onto the rest of the country.

And community activist Stafford Scott has been there through all of them. As such he is a living part of Black British history.

So we are honoured to have him join us as our guest.  

In this episode he takes us through the history of Tottenham and their struggles with the Met Police, from the Broadwater Farm Riots in 1985, to the shooting of Mark Duggan in 2011, to the tasering of his own brother in 2020.