BBC Documentaries - 2022x36 - Walled City Passion- Followmy.tv

Walled City Passion reimagines the ancient story of The Easter Passion for a modern-day audience, and makes it a contemporary event in Derry that’s told through the prism of a live rolling news show. The show's news team - WCP News - is in Derry City to ostensibly cover a Peace Festival. The live news coverage of the Peace Festival is suddenly interrupted by a ‘security alert’ (the events of The Passion), which are happening in another part of the city, and we cut away live to cover these unfolding events. As the events of The Passion on the Walls move closer and closer to Guildhall Square and the Peace Festival, there is a sense of dread and inevitability. We reach an unforgettable finale right in the heart of the city centre, surrounded by thousands of people. The arrest and suffering of one man is trialled by the media. Will his innocence be compromised by the widespread perception of guilt? Walled City Passion truly blurs the lines between performance and reality and captures the i