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Programme 4: 28th October 2007
THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD by Frank McGuinness

Followed by a panel discussion on the issues raised in the play presented by Myles Dungan

Producer:  Cathryn Brennan

Programme 3: 21st October 2007
DON'T ASK by Eugene McCabe
T.P McKenna stars as the psycho-geriatric Circuit Court judge in the court of the last appeal: a nursing home for the elderly. As he deteriorates, his memories revert to the handicapped infant whom he institutionalised at birth.  Justice and its closer relatives, revenge and victimisation, loom large in Eugene McCabe's stark and sombre premiere for radio in the third play in our four-part Amnesty International drama season.

Following the drama, Myles Dungan presents a panel discussion on the issues raised in the play.

Prioducer: Aidan Mathews

Programme 2: 14th October 2007
TWO MEN MEET by Roddy Doyle
Followed by a panel discussion on the issues raised in the play presented by Myles Dungan

Programme 1: 7th October 2007
MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE by Harold Pinter
With Nick Dunning, Liam Cunningham and Deirdre Donnelly, Mountain Language by Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter opens the Amnesty International season on Radio 1.
Jeremy Irons heads a senior cast in the radio premiere of Harold Pinter's short and shocking play about torture. As if recorded on hidden camera, its quick succession of scenes still startles.

First seen at London's National Theatre in 1988, the piece anticipates many of the generic interrogation and abuse techniques that are practised ecumenically by regimes of the right, left and centre worldwide. Yet mountain language - the language of the victimised, of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount - must go on undertaking antibiotic authority.