Assume Nothing: Power Games

Writer Glenn Patterson finds out how, in May 1974, a tiny band of loyalists and unionists over 14 days staged a strike that paralysed Northern Ireland and saw it slide into anarchy. The declaration of a 'State of Emergency' had consequences that remain to the present. Then aged 12, Glenn lived through the event taking place in the context of a 'Troubles' conflict which by 1974 has already seen 1,000 dead. Now, 50 years on, he wants to understand what happened. This dramatised documentary features actors Ian Beattie, Richard Clements, Jo Dow, Patrick FitzSymons, Jonathan Harden, Paddy Jenkins, Rhodri Lewis, Patrick McBrearty, Aoibhéann McCann, Charlotte McCurry, Marty Maguire and Seamus O'Hara