Loose Talk Costs Lives
Tensions rise as the police and army infiltrate paramilitary organisations to gain intelligence. No-one can be trusted as fear and suspicion run rife.
By the late 1980s, the news in Northern Ireland is a daily list of the dead. But 14 bloody days in March 1988 mark a new level of harrowing savagery.
When a car reverses at speed into an IRA funeral cortege, mourners are convinced it’s another attack – a repeat of a grenade and gun strike by a lone loyalist that had killed three at an IRA funeral just days earlier. The car contains two British soldiers who are lynched and shot dead by a baying mob. The incident is captured on camera and becomes headline news.
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"I've never heard Denise's view on it"
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Director | James Bluemel |
| Director | Sian McIlwaine |
| Series Producer | Vicky Mitchell |
| Series Producer | Rachel Hooper |
| Producer | Sian McIlwaine |
| Producer | Stewart Armstrong |
| Producer | Louise Duffy |
| Editor | Bjorn Johnson |
| Composer | Simon Russell |
| Executive Producer | Andrew Palmer |
| Executive Producer | Will Anderson |
| Production Company | KEO Films Ltd |
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