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Alex Wheatle: The Brixton Bard

Award Winning novelist Alex Wheatle has died aged 62. The iconic writer inspired Steve McQueen's BBC series Small Axe.

Award Winning novelist Alex Wheatle has died aged 62. The iconic writer inspired Sir Steve McQueen's BBC series Small Axe. He died a week before the launch of his new BBC series Crongton Knights. In lockdown 2020 he spoke about his troubled childhood, and his work Cane Warriors. Reporter: Karen Gabay.

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