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The Handler Episode 8: The Enemy Within

Assume Nothing The Handler – A Matter of Life and Death
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Dramatised memoir of a Special Branch officer operating at the outset of the Northern Ireland Troubles. James discovers his home phone is tapped.

Dramatised memoir of a Special Branch officer operating at the outset of the Northern Ireland Troubles. James (not his real name) runs a network of informers and sources operating along the border area of South Down and South Armagh during the worst years of violence. For both handler and source, it’s a matter of life and death. Some names, dates and details have been changed to protect the living.

Episode 8: The Enemy Within
James is shocked to discover his home phone has been tapped by British Intelligence, and grows even more disillusioned when he is ordered to hand over one of his best sources to London in the aftermath of the Old Bailey Bombing of 1973.

Cast:
James – Jonathan Harden
Interviewer – Michael Patrick
Tommy – J D Ruddy
Wife – Megan Armitage
Source – Marty Maguire

A Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Northern Ireland Production.

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