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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ series Small Axe.

Award Winning novelist Alex Wheatle has died aged 62. The iconic writer inspired Sir Steve McQueen's ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ series Small Axe. He died a week before the launch of his new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ series Crongton Knights. In lockdown 2020 he spoke about his troubled childhood, and his work Cane Warriors. Reporter: Karen Gabay.

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