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Hugh Bonneville reveals how a perfect storm of political intrigue, power struggles and clashing religious passions combined, in a single week, to cause the event that changed the world: the killing of Jesus.
Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture.
A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.
The mystery of the Geneva Window: a masterpiece of Irish art commissioned by the Irish Government but ultimately rejected, abandoned and hidden away for fear of scandalising the nation.
In his final work – a puppet play – Irish literary heavyweight George Bernard Shaw slugs it out with Shakespeare to decide who is the greatest writer. Cheeky, funny and furiously quick-witted.
