Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave
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Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave
When Ecstasy and Acid House first swept Britain, a group of lives would be changed forever. One Story. Half real life. Half drama. Welcome to Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave.
Atal Berriak
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Former boxing champion and proud Evertonian Tony Bellew delves into the brutal world of football hooliganism. At its height in the 1970s and 1980s, it...
#BattleOfRave: Coming soon...
When Ecstasy and Acid House first swept Britain, a group of lives would be changed forever. One Story. Half real life. Half drama. Coming soon... Ecs...
Ep1. I Need Your Love
The very first MDMA pills hit Britain. Ecstasy fuses with the music of Acid House - and four ordinary people's lives are changed forever. #BattleOfRav...
Meera Syal as The Raver
She's Mrs Ordinary now. But offer her an E, and she might just bite your hand off. All because there's a hole she has to fill... #BattleOfRave
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Ep2. Wizards Of E
In the music and drug underground of Manchester, the pills have changed everything - all helped along by a famous name. In the Acid House dives and cl...
Ian Hart as The Dealer
It started with a few bags of weed on the estate: but the pills turned it into a multinational operation. And the money... was mad. But so too was the...
Ep3. Pump Up The Volume
Where do you get a million E's to bring into Britain? At the start, there was one answer: Amsterdam. And this is exactly how the deals were done. #Bat...
Monica Dolan as The DJ
She doesn’t believe in God anymore - but behind the decks she was a messiah. When the dancefloor's fuelled by the pills though... the devil can come t...
Ep4. Blackburn Ravers
An empty warehouse... a disused mill... the search is on for anywhere to rave, in the unlikeliest of towns. The technicolour Acid House revolution tho...
Adrian Edmondson as The Entrepreneur
He saw the need to party - and the cash that could be made from raves. He'd hit it big on both, running parties for thousands every week. Until, as 88...
Ep5. Call The Cops
It's the second summer of love. E is everywhere, and Acid House has its new national anthems. Warehouses and car convoys come alive. After deaths, the...
David Morrissey as The Undercover Cop
Policing the doors used to be easy - but with Ecstasy came a new breed of dealer. Younger. Harder. Just not as hard as his undercover unit. #BattleOfR...
Ep6. The Last Dance
Through the illegal parties, gangsters muscled in on supplying the pills. The ravers are now caught in their grip. The police have to move in. The ear...
Bonus Ep: John, Danny and Chris
How do you change after a life of dealing drugs? Former criminal John Burton is candid about the life he leads now.
Danny Brocklehurst also ref...