Synopsis
A Republican prisoner in Belfast's Maze Prison is released for 24 hours to help track the killers of his one-time girlfriend.
- Programme: ScreenPlay
- Series: 8
- Episode: 1: Love Lies Bleeding
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1993
- History | Changing Relations: Northern Ireland and its Neighbours, 1920-98
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