Composer Nainita Desai Scores Poetry-Based Feature Documentary 'Troubles: The Life After'

Manners McDade composer Nainita Desai has written the music for a new BBC documentary called 'Troubles: The Life After'.

Nainita has previously composed for ‘Earth’s Natural Wonders’ and ‘Rituals’, both natural history documentaries for BBC.

She is also the winner of the Music+Sound Award 2016 for Best Feature Film Score, a Women in Sync Awards 2016 Nominee, RTS Craft Award 2014 Nominee for Best Original Music and RTS Scotland Awards 2014 Nominee. Most recently Nainita composed the opening theme for the BBC broadcast of the Royal Wedding in May 2018. As part of BBC’s Big British Asian Summer season this year Nainita scored both Searching For Mum and My Asian Family - The Musical.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Troubles, this thought-provoking series focuses on the victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, poetically told through the stories of the victims’ loved ones during the conflict by Northern Irish poet Nick Laird (Go Giants, Glover’s Mistake, Modern Gods). Every individual in the film has their own poem, which emphasises and creates emotional elements in their stories. 

The series is directed by multiple Bafta winner Brian Hill (Feltham Sings, Drinking For England, The Not Dead) and first-time director Niamh Kennedy tells some of their stories. 

The series has also had a positive review in The Observer: 'Part historical document, part requiem for those who lost their lives during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, directors Brian Hill and Niamh Kennedy’s confection of verse, first-hand testimony and archive footage illustrates the accounts of those like Colette O’Connor, who lost loved ones during the conflict and feel “It’s very important that people know the story that really happened”. A powerful piece of television which proves there’s no substitute for raw, unmediated truth.'

More information on the BBC website.

The Life After airs this Saturday 6th October at 9.30pm on BBC Two.