Mike Gaston talks to Isabel Kelly about her memoir ‘IS-Abel’, which depicts her experiences growing up in care, overcoming emotional and physical abuse and becoming the first foster child in the Down and Lisburn area …
Continue ReadingOur Parlour: Fitzroy Presbyterian Church Memory Lane Service
Maryann Quigley learns the story behind the dementia friendly service in Fitzroy Presbyterian Church with Eleanor Greer, Claire Orr and further reveals the history and diverse work of the church in the community with the …
Continue ReadingOur Parlour: Bill McKnight
Our Parlour with author and Poet Bill McKnight. Bill interviewed by Marianne Quigley speaks on his Mental Health, his struggles with it, as well as how he overcame this condition and uses it as inspiration …
Continue ReadingOur Parlour: Liam Kelly
Maryann Quigley talks to writer and poet Liam Kelly about his life growing up in the New Lodge Road in North Belfast during The Troubles. As a child he was knocked down by a car, …
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas – PUNK As F*CK with author Micky Cassidy interviewed by musician Petesy Burns
Author of Punk as F*CK Micky Cassidy reflects on growing up in Belfast in the late 1970s as a punk rocker, his first violent contact with the punk scene but grew to love and finally …
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas – Jude Morrow
Mike Gaston interviews Jude Morrow on his book ‘Dan Cooper’: Based on the Real Story of the Relentless Pursuit of the Northwest Orient Flight 305 Hijacker D.B. Cooper.
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas – Mark Lynch
Debbie McGrory interviews the writer Mark Lynch.
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas: Rotten Prod – Emmet O’Connor
Rotten Prod by historian Emmet O’Connor tells the story of Belfast shipyard worker and labour activist James ‘Dongaree’ Baird.
Continue ReadingFrom Aftergrass to Yellow Boots
Maura Johnston talks to Liam Logan about about her life and work. She also talks about her latest work exploring Seamus Heaney’s use of Ulster-Scots in his poetry.
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas: Malachi O’Doherty
Mike Gaston talks to writer and broadcaster Malachi O’Doherty about his new book ‘Can Ireland Be One? This book asks the big political questions about the prospects of reconciliation between North and South, but it …
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