20th May 2016

Sunday Sequence, May 22nd 2016

With artist Colin Davidson at the BP Portrait Award Exhibition

You'll all know portraits that seem to convey the essence of the sitter. How is that done? I don't know. But I know a man who does - the artist Colin Davidson. I spoke to him at   the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the Ulster Museum.  If GM foods are safe, is it unethical not to use them to feed the world? Physician Dr Seamus O'Mahoney on his book "The Way We Die Now"; the stigma of mental illness; the lesser-known victims of child sexual abuse - the wrongly accused; how the Poles are pillars of the Irish Catholic Church. And more.....