Our Knife Crime Crisis on BBC One review: a fearless look at a harrowing subject - 4/5 There are no easy answers here: but Elba tackles the issue with thoughtfulness and grace

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

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

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

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.

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, during which he met victims' families, police officers and teenage offenders.

Actor Idris Elba has suggested more action can be taken to make kitchen knives safer to reduce stabbings across the country. The 52-year-old was speaking ahead of the release on Wednesday of Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis,

Idris Elba tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme that kitchen knives could be made without points on the end 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,