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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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Tue 4 Jul 2023 22:40

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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