What did you miss? 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.

For six years he's campaigned to stop kids from killing each other with knives, now the actor is begging the whole country to get behind him

Idris Elba has suggested that more could be done to make kitchen knives safer in order to reduce crime rates across the UK. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, the actor and activist claims that around 25% of knife attacks are caused by knives commonly found at home, and “areas of innovation” could help reduce this.

In the documentary, called Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis, the Hollywood star meets a 17-year-old boy at Feltham young offender institution who first began carrying a blade when he was 13. He grew up in a violent home and had been badly bullied at school for having dandruff.