Shadow Dancer
Thriller. A captured IRA terrorist is sent back to Belfast as an MI5 informant, but when suspicions are aroused she finds both herself and her family in grave danger.
Belfast, 1980s: IRA volunteer Colette McVeigh is caught in an operation by British secret services and faces little option but to become an informer or she will never see her son again. Reluctantly attending secret meetings with her handler, she begins passing secret information across about her own brothers, both volunteers in the IRA. And Colette is being watched by her brother Gerry. If she makes one false move, they will kill her. If it isn't the British who take her away from her son, it could be her own family.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:10Dickon Hinchliffe
Underground
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00:13Dickon Hinchliffe
Captured
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00:22Dickon Hinchliffe
The Dilemma
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00:27Dickon Hinchliffe
Home
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00:32Dickon Hinchliffe
Mac Arrives
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00:34Dickon Hinchliffe
The Quay
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00:38Dickon Hinchliffe
Dawn Raid
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00:54Dickon Hinchliffe
We Need To Talk
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01:12Dickon Hinchliffe
Birthday Party
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01:21Dickon Hinchliffe
Shadow Dancer
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01:23Dickon Hinchliffe
The Real Tout
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01:28Dickon Hinchliffe
How Does It Feel?
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01:34Dickon Hinchliffe
Colette's Choice
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Mac | Clive Owen |
| Colette McVeigh | Andrea Riseborough |
| Kate Fletcher | Gillian Anderson |
| Gerry | Aidan Gillen |
| Connor | Domhnall Gleeson |
| Ma | Brid Brennan |
| Kevin Mulville | David Wilmot |
| Liam Hughes | Michael McElhatton |
| Brendan | Martin McCann |
| Ian Gilmore | Stuart Graham |
| Writer | Tom Bradby |
| Director | James Marsh |
