The fifth in a series of seven programmes filmed over two years inside the secretive world of Customs and Excise.
Poteen
Rural Ulster: market day in Ballymena, and the powerful voice of the Rev Ian Paisley is booming across the packed market. Unknown to people at the market, undercover officers are surveying the scene from a plain observation van. On one side. Paisley; on the other, their quarry - an old enemy selling poteen.
This very Irish story becomes tense as it reaches the night-time surveillance of the target's remote farmhouse. As the team closes in on his still, the brewer makes a run for it and, in scenes reminiscent of 30s prohibition, the drama unfolds ...
Photography PATRICK O'SHEA
Film editor ANDREW WILLSMORE Assistant producer ROGER COURTIOUR
Producer PAUL HAMANN
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