Saga of post-Rising pensions wrestles with too much good material
There was undoubtedly a sizeable amount of gold bullion in Keepers of the Flame, but the programme was much too long at 105 minutes
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Keepers of the Flame RTÉ One
A documentary about military pensions doesn’t exactly sound like must-watch TV, but Keepers of the Flame (RTÉ One) undeniably strove hard to transcend its subject’s inherent dramatic limitations. It half succeeded. It gathered together a large amount of fascinating material – but not all of that material was entirely germane to the subject under discussion, and too much made it into the finished product.