Borderlines

Jan Carson talks to Borderlines hosts Freya McClements and Mary Minihan about her rural Protestant evangelical background. The writer, whose grandfather was an Orangeman, explains how her latest novel The Raptures was inspired by the Co Antrim community she grew up in. She says B ...  Afficher plus

Author Séamas O'Reilly talks to Borderlines hosts Freya McClements and Mary Minihan about growing up with his 10 siblings on the Border between Derry in Northern Ireland and Donegal in the Republic when the Troubles were on the wane.The writer also reflects on the "bittersweet" e ...  Afficher plus

Writer Rosemary Jenkinson talks to Borderlines hosts Freya McClements and Mary Minihan about her very British upbringing in Northern Ireland, the awkward facts of history and how a trip to Palestine changed her perspective. The author recalls how the Troubles touched her childhoo ...  Afficher plus

Undertones bass guitarist Mickey Bradley talks to Borderlines hosts Freya McClements and Mary Minihan about his favourite music, appearing on Top Of The Pops and the post-Brexit reality of life in Derry. The presenter of The Mickey Bradley Record Show on BBC Radio Ulster also spe ...  Afficher plus

Kyle Paisley, a Free Presbyterian minister in the church founded by his father Ian, now lives and works in England. But Northern Ireland will always be home - even if it becomes part of a United Ireland.He talks to Mary and Freya about his memories of growing up under threat as t ...  Afficher plus