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Joe is still on hunger strike in Long Kesh prison, but Fergus is distracted by Cora...

Digging for peat in the mountains, Fergus has found the body of a girl, who seems to have been murdered around 2,000 years before.

He's got to know the archaeologist in charge, and her daughter, Cora.

Fergus knows his A levels are a way out of the 'insane' world around him: his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and being blackmailed into acting as a courier for the IRA across the border, where he has befriended the sentry, Owain.

A voice comes to him in his dreams and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

Set in the summer, 1980s, in Northern Ireland, this beautiful, subtle, intriguing and uplifting story is one you鈥檒l never forget. Its setting is a vital historical context for current Brexit confusion: a deeply appealing and timely story set around the complex politics of the Northern Irish border.

Siobhan Dowd's award-winning novel set on the Northern Irish border during the Troubles.

Omnibus of the last first five of ten episodes abridged by Sara Davies.

Mel .... Catherine Cusack

Concluded by Finnian Garbutt.

Produce: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2019

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