British actor Idris Elba (Luther, Hijack) will front a new BBC One documentary on the reality of knife crime in the U.K.

In recent years, the star has been vocal as an anti-knife crime activist and hopes the hourlong program, Idris Elba: A Year of Knife Crime (a working title), will spotlight solutions to solve the crisis. He will meet with young offenders, bereaved families, youth workers and the police in a bid to understand the uptick in knife crime across Britain.

The film will feature a meeting with U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer, who said that his government would commit to halving knife crime if elected, and a meeting with King Charles to discuss ways to solve the problem.

A BBC press release said: “Idris faced crossroads in his life as a teenager and knows how easy it would have been to go down a different path,...