What caused the August 2011 riots? Why did they spread? Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott MP; friend of Mark Duggan and freelance youth mentor Marcus Knox-Hooke; retired Police Superintendent Leroy Logan MBE; and social psychology professors Steve Reicher and John Drury, are joined by chair Paul Lewis, associate editor at The Guardian, to discuss why civil unrest can spread with such rapidity and how to prevent riots from repeating in the future.

https://membership.theguardian.com/event/rereading-the-2011-riots-could-it-happen-again-51209577224 

Audio recording of the event: https://youtu.be/q4ejMJMzthE