Banning the sale of zombie knives is a positive step, but schools need to intervene earlier to help tackle the UK's knife crime crisis, says Idris Elba. The actor, 52, has spent the last year making a documentary for the BBC about solutions to knife crime,

TV viewers have said Idris Elba ’s documentary on knife crime was a " hard watch " but "compelling" viewing. The Wire star spent the last year filming BBC programme Our Knife Crime Crisis. He met young offenders in a prison and individuals working on various schemes trying to tackle knife crime, as well as people who had lost loved ones.

In BBC One’s sobering documentary, the actor meets the King, Prime Minister and victim’s families, each of whom offer few genuine solutions

BBC One viewers have praised Idris Elba for his latest documentary, Idris Elba: Our Knife Crisis, as he attempts to find out why young people still feel the need to carry a knife

Luther star speaks ahead of the release of BBC documentary in which actor talks to victims’ families, police officers and teenage offenders

Idris Elba has shared how he is "overwhelmed and angry" over UK knife crime as he reflected in a his new BBC documentary about a passionate plea he made in 2019. The actor, 52, has been talking about the worrying subject for years,