Episode 8: The Big Picture

Tara and Declan go to the cinema – not for the main feature, but to watch the newsreels.

This week it’s pomp and propaganda at the pictures. In 1921, the news shown before the main feature was carefully curated, as Ciara Chambers, author of Ireland in Newsreels, explains. We find out how audiences didn’t always take kindly to ‘fake news’.