What Happens in Ulster

Hands on a Red Tractor


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True crime parody. Comedian Diona Doherty plays an ambitious young reporter trying to jump on the true crime bandwagon with a hit podcast.

At a festival in mid-Ulster, fifteen people stood with one hand each resting on a brand new tractor. They stood there as long as they could because the last person who takes their hand off the tractor, gets to keep it. They knew it would get tough. But what they didn’t know was, before this tractor was won, one of the contestants… would be dead. Georgina smells conspiracy, and it’s absolutely stinking.

What Happens In Ulster is a mockumentary series inspired by wave of popular true crime podcasts and radio documentaries.

Our ambitious young reporter believes that the fastest way to the top of the news business, is with a cracking true crime documentary. All she needs is an unsolved crime, some victims and a suspect. And lots of crying would be great. If this documentary is a success, she could go on to present BBC Newsline or a Panorama. After that, who knows…Dancing On Ice? But first, she needs some drama, even if she has to create some herself.

This episode stars Diona Doherty, Sarah McKinley, Sean Hegarty, Micky Bartlett and Marty Maguire. It was written and produced by Marc McElroy.

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