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After taking part in an NSM arson attack on a yeshiva during which a student is killed, Morris disappears, leading Epstein to charm her way into Colin Jordan’s good graces to find out whether Morris has been unmasked, injured or killed. Morris, it turns out, is embedded in the NSM as a spy for a covert group of Jewish anti-fascist activists led by Epstein’s uncle Soly (Eddie Marsan), who is ably supported by his formidable wife Nancy (the estimable Tracy-Ann Oberman, who has herself braved relentless and public anti-Semitic abuse in recent years, bringing another and even more immediate layer of relevance to the story). Epstein (Agnes O’Casey, giving not a sign that this is her first television role) moves from her loving but claustrophobic home in Manchester, where she lives with her parents, to swinging London in search of ex-boyfriend Jack Morris (Tom Varey). Ridley Road unfolds from the perspective of the blond woman we see in the opening, the fictional Vivien Epstein.
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Their most famous confrontation was in Trafalgar Square in 1962, when Jordan – protected by the Free Speech Act – held an antisemitic rally where a riot broke out between attenders and protesters. The drama is named after the road that housed the headquarters of the coalition of Jewish men known as the 62 Group who took direct militant action against the NSM in particular. It is he – played by Rory Kinnear – who we see sieg-heiling in the sunshine. The true part is the rise of neo-fascism in 60s England, when the dismal rags of Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, and the version of the British National party that would become the National Front, were supplemented by the National Socialist Movement led by a man called Colin Jordan. It is an arresting opening, made even more so by the fact that the story about to unfold, we are told, was inspired by true events. So begins Ridley Road (BBC One), the four-part adaptation by Sarah Solemani of Jo Bloom’s 2014 novel of the same name.
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They gather in front of the window and smilingly give a Nazi salute. They are joined by the dapper man of the house. An adorable moppet is helping a young blond woman make the bed. A sunlit bedroom in a country house in Kent, 1962.