Midsummer’s Day - Sunday Sequence
Environmentalist George Monbiot and Professor of Catholic Theology Tina Beattie discuss the papal encyclical on climate change, Laudato Si.
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June 16th - Bloomsday
A letter from James Joyce to his aunt Josephine, Mrs William Murray -
Sunday Sequence 7th June
In denial about drink - Ireland and alcoholism. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - does Lord Acton's famous dictum hold true?
Read MoreSunday Sequence 17th May
Human Rights, good marriages, bad sermons and living 'in the now'. And much more......
Read MoreSunday Sequence May 3rd
Death, forgiveness and one of life's daily miracles.
Read MoreSunday Sequence April 26th
Tragedy in the Mediterranean - we talk to Peter Sutherland, UN special representative for migration; Bernadette McAliskey, Economist John Simpson and Company Director Irwin Armstrong debate the ethical and practical issues around the migrant crisis; Katie Hopkins and freedom of speech ; philanthropy past and present; the enduring appeal of Father Ted - and much more. Plus a review of the Sunday Papers. And you can text us with your comments - 81771.
Read MoreSunday Sequence April 19th
On Sunday Sequence April 19th - the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide - we talk to the daughter of a survivor and to the author of The Fall of the Ottomans. Plus......
Read MoreA Modern Pilgrim
On Sunday Sequence, during a discussion about the popularity of pilgrimage in a secular age, I confessed I had done part of the Camino de Compostela in a taxi because I had bronchitis. Listeners probably thought I was (a) rich (b) making too much of a minor complaint. Let me explain.
Nordic Noir
Do you like drama and fiction from Denmark, Sweden and Norway?
Read MoreBelfast
I came back to Belfast last year – 2014 - after an absence of thirty years. I left a city cowed and scarred by years of sectarian war and little prospect of things changing. I returned to a city changed almost beyond recognition. The politicians are still at war, but the city itself seems at peace.
Read MoreSnow
It's snowing in Belfast. I think of the Louis MacNeice poem "Snow."
Read MoreGetting It Right
I set my books in a particular places, or places, at a particular time.
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