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Drama on 4: Desecration

Desecration

05/11/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Desecration

In 1940, an imminent Nazi invasion of Ireland means a choice: collaboration or resistance?

By Hugh Costello. Francis Byrne must act fast to encourage resistance and prevent Ireland from becoming a Nazi dominion and a launch pad for an invasion of Britain.

Irish government official and secret British agent, Francis Byrne, must act fast to encourage resistance and prevent Ireland from becoming a launch pad for a Nazi invasion of Britain. But at what cost to the Irish people, and to his own loved ones?

Inspired by a recently discovered documents confirming Hitler's wartime plans to invade Ireland, and using both fictional and real characters, Desecration is a powerful counter-factual drama. It imagines how the first few days of such an invasion would have unfolded - and shows the stark moral dilemmas faced by a nation's leaders when the time comes to choose between resistance and collaboration.

Writer ..... Hugh Costello
Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan.

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