March 2026

How to Get to Heaven From Belfast: Setting the Series' Tone From Frame One

“We move through the trees, the light from a torch darts about quickly, urgently. Eventually it discovers a narrow path blanketed in fallen leaves. The sound of feet crunching down on them — more than one person, two? Maybe three? The path winds round a bend and the feet stop; they arrive, as we do, at a little cottage. The sign above its red wooden doors reads ‘Caretaker’. The footsteps move inside, the torch flashing around wildly now… The light darts across a wall catching something as it passes, graffiti perhaps? Slowly, purposeful, the torchlight returns. We see it properly now — a strange symbol…” Those were the words that opened the script for How to Get to Heaven From Belfast. I remember reading and thinking, "Crikey." I’d never...more