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Past Productions - Singles
1980-1984
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Singles 1990-present
Singles 1985-1989
Singles 1980-1984
Feature Films
Short Films
The following titles can be found on this page
After
You've Gone
Aunt Suzanne
Catchpenny Twist
Coming to Terms For Billy, A
Cry, The
Easter 2016
Fire at Magillligan
Gates Of Gold
Iris in The Traffic, Ruby in
The Rain
Kamikaze Groundstaff Reunion
Dinner, The
Long March, The
Matter of Choice For Billy,
A
My Dear Palestrina
Phonefun Limited
Too Late To Talk To Billy
Woman Calling, A
| Title: |
After
You’ve Gone |
| Logline:
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Adrian
Dunbar plays Chris. While supervising a test taken by the Biology
class in the last period of the school day, Chris composes a
letter and recalls his relationship with two women. |
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Starring: |
Adrian
Dunbar |
| Writer: |
Fredrick
Aicken |
| Director: |
Garth
Tucker |
| Producer: |
Chris
Parr |
| Production
Credits: |
BBC
Northern Ireland |
| Genre: |
Single |
| Channel: |
BBC2 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1984 |
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| Title: |
Aunt
Suzanne |
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A
play adapted from a short story by Michael McLaverty set in
1920’s Belfast. Aunt Suzanne comes up from the country
to look after her deceased sister’s children. After an
awkward start she manages well - but what’s her secret? |
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Starring: |
Catherine
Brennan, Neil Campbell, Stella McCusker, Joanne Thompson |
| Writer: |
Michael
MacLaverty (adapted by Stewart Love) |
| Director: |
Peter
Barber-Fleming |
| Producer: |
Chris
Parr |
| Production
Credits: |
BBC
Northern Ireland |
| Genre:
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Single |
| Channel: |
BBC1
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| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1984 |
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| Title: |
Catchpenny
Twist |
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A
comedy with music by Stewart Parker about two men who want to
write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision song contest. |
| Starring: |
Frances
Tomelty, Sam Dale, Gerard Murphy, Maggie Shevlin |
| Writer:
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Stewart
Parker |
| Director: |
Robert
Knights |
| Producer: |
Ken
Trodd |
| Production
Credits: |
BBC
Northern Ireland |
| Genre: |
Single |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1980 |
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| Title: |
A
Coming To Terms For Billy |
| Logline: |
Third
in a trilogy of plays by Graham Reid telling the story of a
father and son conflict in Belfast. It is more than two years
since Norman Martin left his family to seek work in England.
News of his return home is greeted with mixed reactions. |
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Starring: |
Kenneth
Branagh, James Ellis, Brid Brennan, Colum Convey, Tracey Lynch,
Mark Mulholland, Aine Norman |
| Writer: |
Graham
Reid |
| Director:
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Paul
Seed |
| Producer: |
Chris
Parr |
| Executive
Producer: |
Neil
Zeiger |
| Production
Credits: |
BBC
Northern Ireland |
| Genre: |
Single |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1984 |
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| Title: |
The
Cry |
| Logline: |
Ulster
1959. A young journalist is awakened by a scream in the night.
He sees a youth being beaten and dragged off. Witnesses just
seem to melt away... |
| Starring: |
Adrian
Dunbar, Michael Duffy, Doreen Keogh, Peter Quigley, Breffni
McKenna, Birdy Sweeney |
| Writer: |
Derek
Mahon & Chris Menaul |
| Director: |
Christopher
Menaul |
| Producer: |
Chris
Parr |
| Production
Credits: |
BBC
Northern Ireland |
| Genre: |
Single |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1984 |
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| Title: |
Easter
2016 |
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Set
in 2016, prior to the centenary of the Easter Rising, in Northern
Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle
develops between the principal and the security director who
values security more than education. |
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Starring: |
Kenneth
Branagh |
| Writer:
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Graham
Reid |
| Director: |
Ben
Holt |
| Producer: |
Neil
Zeiger |
| Production
Credits: |
BBC
Northern Ireland |
| Genre: |
Single |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1982 |
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| Title: |
Fire
At Magilligan |
| Logline: |
At
the beginning of the M2, heading north out of Belfast, the driver
stops to give a lift to a hitch-hiker. He and she recognise
each other. They have met before… |
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Starring: |
Derek
Halligan, Dilys Hamlett |
| Writer: |
Harry
Barton |
| Director: |
Jan
Sargent |
| Producer:
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Chris
Parr |
| Production
Credits: |
BBC
Northern Ireland |
| Genre:
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Single |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1984 |
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