The life and work of the Dublin playwright, reflecting on his poor background and political interests. Includes interviews with O'Casey, his wife Eileen and son Breon. A staging of his 1923 play Shadow of a Gunman follows. New.
First shown on BBC Northern Ireland
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A 1995 BBC2 adaptation of Sean O'Casey's famous play about a romantic young girl who mistakes a dreaming poet for an IRA gunman on the run. Starring Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Rea.
The American author reveals the traumas behind his fiction, including his latest book Until I Find You. A dramatisation of The World According to Garp follows.
Director George Roy
Hill's bewildering 1982 drama, based on John Irving 's sprawling, satirical bestseller charting a New
England writer's unconventional life. Starring Robin Williams , Mary Beth Hurt, John Lithgow and - in her feature film debut - Glenn Close.
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Exist 2/2. Simon Reeve visits South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno
Karabakh
highlights from this year's festival, including Brian Wilson , the White Stripes, Femi Kuti and Steve Earle
Time Shift examines the origins of those regarded by many as social pariahs
