The first two are based on real people Lynndie England and David Kelly and the third is fictional.
[1] It won the 2007–08 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize[5] and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Awards at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
[3] "Harrowdown Hill" refers to the place where the body of Dr. David Kelly was found a few weeks after he confessed to a journalist that he had lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
[3] "Instruments of Yearning" refers to the Jihaz al-Haneen, the secret police of the Ba'ath Party who detained fictional character Nehrjas Al Saffarh, an Iraqi communist, in 1963.
Saffarh survived but was killed during United States bombing in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.