Small Town, Big Riot

Mobeen Azhar investigates how a protest outside an asylum seeker hotel turned into a riot.

Small Town, Big Riot Episodes

Series 1: Episode 1

Eight months before the UK’s worst riots in over a decade, award-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar headed to Kirkby, just 7 miles east of Liverpool city centre, to investiga ...

19-05-2026

BBC 3

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Series 1: Episode 2

Mobeen Azhar returns to Kirkby to try to connect the dots between a whirlwind of misinformation and growing unrest outside sites housing asylum seekers. He soon finds out that a ...

19-05-2026

BBC 3

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