Riz Ahmed’s newest documentary series is set to reveal the hidden history of British-Asian resistance to the violence of the 1970s and 1980s. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @arabnews.lifestyle Defiance: Fighting the Far Right, is a documentary series airing this April and is produced by the Emmy award-winning Rogan productions and Ahmed’s production company Left Handed Films. The series follows the protests following the murder of a 19- year- old Sikh boy Gurdeep Chaggar in Southall in 1976. The killing of Aftab Ali near Brick Lane in 1978 and the arson attack in Walthamstow which killed Parveen Khan and her three children including a baby in their own home in 1981. “Sadly, it’s a history that not many people are aware of,” Ahmed told BBC Radio 4. “One of the aims of this is to take people on this ride and open their eyes to this rich history of defiance in the face of the rising far right,” Ahmed added. Ahmed said he was proud of the series which he has co-produced. “I was too young when a lot of this was going on but I’d hear stories from my uncles about really having to fight to survive.We know all about Martin Luther King and the movements in America - but this was our civil rights movement here in Britain.”he added.