Danny Boy (BBC Drama)

[cuprabob]

On BBC2 tonight at 9pm

Saw the soldier it's about being interviewed on GMB last week and the clips look good.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w21w

[Legacywr]

It was dull

[hidetheelephants]

Legacywr said:

It was dull

Much like the platoon/company-level fighting of Dannyboy it was messy, confusing and inconclusive. It felt like they'd either chopped a lot out or just never included it; was Shiner always a lying git or did cynicism/fatigue/overwork/ego lead him to fabricate stuff?

[Blue62]

Legacywr said:

It was dull

I get that, actually split it into two because I found it quite demanding. Definitely not light entertainment but I thought the acting and production were really good and the whole thing was thought provoking.

[rdjohn]

I think it is the sort of drama that everyone should watch. It does perfectly display the dilemma of modern warfare.

A friend of mine was an officer with the Commandos in the Falklands. He describes the scenario that we have all seen in the movies and for which they had trained endlessly.

A remote farmhouse is occupied by “the enemy”, you surround it and two guys sneak up and lob in a couple of grenades. They come running out of the doors and you shoot them. Then you stop and see six 18-year old conscripts who could not fight their way out of a paper bag.

He is still troubled by the events to this day, though would never admit to PTSD.