Both were on BBC4. The first, Speak No Evil: the Story of the Broadcast Ban, details the censorship of Sinn Fein imposed by the British government on all broadcast media. The ban was shown to be ludicrous and misguided, as the BBC, especially, found ways to circumvent the ruling. These included the use of subtitles, and employing actors to voice Sinn Fein's words over the original footage. The actors initially put a lot of time into matching the voiceover with the action, and inevitably over-acted as they attempted to convey the full meaning of the speech. As time went on they learned to present the information in a more neutral way. Although the party's media exposure did dwindle at first, the government were the subject of censure from such well-known democracies as Russia and Libya. Sinn Fein, however, gained steadily in popularity, and both sides realised that at some point negotiations would have to take place between this force in Irish politics and the British government. Once the IRA ceasefire was announced in 1994, the broadcast ban was immediately lifted.

The ban was an interesting move, the most severe of its kind since the second world war. As the actor Steven Rea points out, media censorship is always aimed at denying the public knowledge and information, and in implementing the ban the government were attmepting to control matters beyond their reach and beyond their natural course.

The film contained some shocking material, especially footage from the 16th March republican funeral at Milltown Cemetery when Michael Stone threw grenades and fired into the crowd of mourners, killing three. Three days later, at the victim's funeral, two British soldiers are seized while driving past. They are dragged from their car and murdered - their deaths recorded on TV and Army film, although the BBC refused to hand the footage over to the British government as evidence.

The second film was Confessions of an IRA Informer, about Sean O'Callaghan, a self-confessed IRA bomb-maker, murderer and double agent who was sentenced to 539 years imprisonment in 1988 and received the Queen's pardon eight years later. O'Callaghan's motives remain muddied, and unfortunately the film, at only 45 minutes, does not take the time to explore them. At once point he goes to a police station in England to confess to murdering another suspected informer, only to recant his confession later and state his aim was to force a public enquiry in the killing, which did take place at the hands of the IRA, but without O'Callaghan, so he says.