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 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 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 …
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas: Frank Higgins
Liam Logan talks to Author Frank Higgins about his book, Tall Tales & Short Stories which reflects on the lives of the men of the Belfast shipyard.
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas: Evan Marshall
Elliot Lloyd talks to author Evan Marshall about his his book Fields of Wonder.
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas: Gerry Armstrong
‘A Young Life Stolen’ is Gerry Armstrong’s autobiographical account of growing up in Ligoniel and the story of his brother 18-year-old Paul Armstrong, who was abducted and murdered by the UVF on 8 November 1974. …
Continue ReadingNovel Ideas: Bernard Conlon
Belfast poet and journalist, Bernard L. Conlon talks about his latest collection- The Poetry Process: A Pamphlet of Poems. He discusses how he got into poetry, his work as a journalist and living in Europe. …
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