Ciarán Hinds – MRQE

Midwinter Break

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to light and force them to confront their future.

The Affair (TV)

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.

“Narrow Road to the Deep North, The”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway during WWII, is haunted by his time as a POW, as well as a forbidden affair he had with his uncle’s wife prior to the war.

Prime Suspect 3 (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Jane Tennison investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.

The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel.
At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his loss, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far. Eighteen years later, Henchard has become Mayor of Casterbridge, a man well respected but not well liked. The unexpected return of his wife and daughter Elizabeth Jane sets off a turn of events that force him to face the consequences of his selfish impulses and violent temper.

“Cold Lazarus”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The year is 2368 and a group of scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough as they begin to tap into the memory of a man who died in the 1990s.

Words of War

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields and exposing Russian state corruption under Vladimir Putin. She refused to give up reporting on the war in Chechnya despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence, including being poisoned. She was ultimately murdered in the elevator of her block of flats and it remains unclear who paid for the contract killing.

Silence

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

“Treason”

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An MI6 deputy’s bright future takes a sharp turn after a reunion with a Russian spy forces him to question his entire life.

Cottontail

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A widower from Japan travels with his estranged son to England in order to fulfill his late wife’s dying wish.