“I think what this series does is just remind us that we are constantly battling against fascism, Nazism and neo-Nazism. While her story may be fictional, the history of fascists fighting anti-fascists on the streets of London is not. “Ridley Road” - in the '60s, a multicultural thoroughfare in northeast London - centers on an unconventional heroine, a young Jewish hairdresser who goes undercover into the neo-Nazi movement. And we were the good guys and Hitler was a bad guy and he died in the bunker and that was the end of it. 'We like to think of history as good guys and bad guys. “We like to think we’re on the right side of history,' said Solemani, who grew up in London with an Iranian father and Northern Irish mother.
