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Nesbitt in new Troubles drama
Thursday, May 08, 2008
By Maureen Coleman
James Nesbitt is to return to Belfast to begin filming a new BBC drama about
the Troubles.
Nesbitt will star in a one-off programme called Five Minutes of Heaven,
which will be set in Belfast and is a dramatised version of the real life
story of 17-year-old Alistair Little, a member of the UVF, who in 1975
murdered 19-year-old Catholic Jim Griffin in Lurgan.
Little was arrested two weeks later along with three others involved in the
shooting and convicted.
He served 12 and a half years in prison.
Jim's murder was witnessed by his 11-year-old brother Joe Griffin. Nesbitt
is expected to play Joe in adulthood.
Written by Guy Hibbert, Five Minutes of Heaven will begin shooting at the
end of May.
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