Best Single Drama/ Drama Serial
The year is 1824 and the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land is little more than a living hell. Chained to a wall in the darkness of a cell under Hobart Gaol, Irish convict Alexander Pearce is visited by Father Conolly, the parish priest of the fledgling colony and a fellow Irishman.
Pearce's final confession before his execution shocks the British establishment to the core. The Last Confession Of Alexander Pearce draws a visceral and compelling picture of a hell on earth and tells the horrific tale of how one man endured the unimaginable by doing the unthinkable.