Sunday, 18 October 1 airing
22:00
5Action
Riot: The Week England Burned
A look at the wave of unrest that hit cities across the UK in 2011, when buildings were torched, rioters threw fire-bombs and five people lost their lives. The documentary features powerful first-hand testimony from rioters, police officers, victims and journalists, and uses footage from the four days to explore why a small protest in north London led to £500m worth of damage, hundreds of businesses destroyed and 2,000 people convicted, with some of the looters as young as 12