4: Defending the Indefensible
Politics and faith collide in this tender and shocking love story set during the Troubles. Today: Cushla begins to realise that her actions could have devastating consequences.
Politics, religion and passion collide in Louise Kennedy's tender and shocking love story, set on the outskirts of 1970s Belfast.
Cushla Lavery is a teacher at a Catholic primary school by day and helps out at the family bar by night. When barrister Michael Agnew, older, married and Protestant, walks into the pub on a quiet February night, their lives will be changed forever. This is no ordinary love story. In a country divided by the Troubles, tensions are rising and simple acts of kindness have deep consequences for Cushla and her whole entire family.
Today: Cushla finds herself crossing invisible lines in this fractured community, as she tries to help the beleaguered McKeown family.
Writer: Louise Kennedy
Reader: Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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