10 X 15’

In 1984 an IRA bomb planted under a bath in Brighton’s Grand Hotel came close to killing Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Five people died and 31 others were seriously injured. Belfast writer Glenn Patterson tells the story of the deadly attack, unravelling the threads that brought all involved - often by heartbreaking chance - to that place and time, 2.54am on the morning of 12 October, and reveals how the police only just averted a huge follow-up IRA bombing campaign, aimed at England’s beaches.