The Round Up Tuesday 12th February 2019
Discovering this year’s NI Science Festival from its Director Chris McCreery and W5 educator Matt Craig.
smART: Special FX Make Up
This week young people from East Belfast’s Dream Scheme create Special Fx make up with local artist Connie McGrath.
Our Generation: Doreen McBride
Karen Mooney talks to Doreen McBride about her life as a teacher and how she decided to change her path to become a writer of local folklore themed books.
The Round Up Monday 11th February 2019
Discussion with the Public Health Agency about the Northern Ireland Diabetic Eye Screening Programme. Visit to the Heavenly Bodies art exhibition at the Artcetera Studio in Belfast.
Football Express 01.02.19
Local football show hosted by Stephen Looney with guests Mark McIntosh, Gerard Lyttle and Tim McCann.
Banterflix: Series 11 Episode 1
Joe McElroy, Bill Taylor and Bill’s daughter Aurora take a look at The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, plus Velvet Busszaw on Netflix and the Coen brothers classic The Big Lebowski.
The Round Up Friday 8 February 2019
GRADAM CEOIL 2019 Donal O’Connor publicises Gradam Ceoil TG4, the Oscars of Traditional Music will return to Belfast on February 17th 2019. The gala award ceremony will feature traditional music, song and dance covering a wide array of talent from home and abroad. BEYOND BUSK is Belfast’s first youth busking competition designed to showcase the […]
The Round-Up Thursday 7th February 2019
We visit the Ulster Museum where twelve of Leonardo da Vinci drawing are on display. Katrina McDonnell and Sian O’Neill join us in the studio to highlight the issue of poverty in Northern Ireland and the work taking place to eliminate it.
History Now: Remembering 1798
Historians Guy Beiner and Peter Collins join Barry Sheppard to discuss how the 1798 Rebellion has been remembered, and forgotten.
In Focus: The 1919 Strike
Historian Padraig Yeates discusses the 1919 Belfast engineering strike, when 40,000 workers brought the city to a standstill for a 44-hour working week.