This week's episode of Very British Futures features something brand new - a short history lesson. Because this week we look at a fairly unique meeting of Northern Ireland politics and science fiction in the Play for Tomorrow - Easter 2016 and I felt I needed to give listeners a bit of context for the significance of that date, since it was the centenary of the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916. The history of Northern Ireland is far too big a subject for a personal blog about science fiction. There is plenty I still do not know about it that I should, which is why I was adamant that I needed a guest from Northern Ireland to talk about this television play.