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Writer Graham Reid, known for the Billy Plays – a trilogy that starred a young Kenneth Branagh – looks back on his 1995 TV drama Life After Life, a powerful addition to his work on the Troubles.

The film looks at how the ceasefires of the mid-1990s brought their own problems. It focuses on Leo, a murderer released from prison expecting a hero’s return. Instead, he is greeted by a city that thinks he’s irrelevant.

Graham talks about the ‘working out’ scheme that tried to integrate convicted killers back into the community. He looks at the impact their release had on their families and the adjustment the former prisoners had to make coming back into a world so different to the one they knew before.

With a powerful cast, including Lorcan Cranitch and Michelle Fairley, the film is a rich part of the canon of dramas that covered this critical time.