Graceland in the Glens

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In 2019, Elvis Presley Enterprises threatened to deconstruct Graceland and move it to Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, or whoever was the highest bidder. Artist, writer, KLF member and money burner - Bill Drummond - realised something had to be done. Bill's relationship with Northern Ireland began before his relationship with Elvis - but at some junction, these two relationships were bound to collide. It seems the Curfew Tower at the junction of the crossroads in the village of Cushendall in the Glens of Antrim is where this collision will be taking place.

Producer: Conor Garrett

Transcript

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:39.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4.
0:42.0	I'm Vanessa Kasule. If you love unique documentaries,
0:46.8	this is the podcast for you. Each week you'll find two new episodes to discover. Here
0:52.4	comes something unusual, charming and seriously
0:56.4	fascinating. Elvis Presley's home was called Graceland.
1:03.0	Graceland was in Memphis, Tennessee.
1:07.0	Elvis Presley died at the age of 42 in the summer of 1977 and I cried. 42 years later in 2019 the Elvis Presley
1:21.8	estate threatened to deconstruct Graceland and move it to Saudi Arabia or Tokyo,
1:29.0	whoever was the highest bidder.
1:31.0	Something had to be done. For the year of
1:36.5	2024 I will be the manager of the Ghost of Elvis Presley and the ghost of Elvis will have his
1:46.5	Graceland in the north of Ireland which is the best place on earth for it since the north of Ireland has a fault line of the human soul
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