PI Week 17 April 21 - April 27 2012 The Nolan Show Stephen Nolan returns to BBC One NI with the new series The Nolan Show
Programme Information New this week The Nolan Show Page 3 Stephen Nolan returns to BBC One NI with the new series The Nolan Show Glory Days Page 4 A three part series of sporting highlights from Northern Ireland through the decades Farm Week Live Page 6 A week-long celebration of farming on BBC Radio Ulster 2
The Nolan Show Stephen Nolan returns to BBC One NI with the new series The Nolan Show The Nolan Show, BBC One NI, Wednesday, April 25 at 10.35pm He s back. Capitalising on the success of his daily BBC Radio Ulster breakfast show, Stephen Nolan is bringing his eclectic brand of broadcasting to BBC One Northern Ireland, starting Wednesday, April 25 at 10.35pm. The new eight-part television series will tackle the topical issues of the week both locally and nationally. Expect hard-hitting debate, heated exchanges and probing interviews. And because the show is fully interactive, viewers can engage directly via phone, text, e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and Skype. The Nolan Show will also feature a one-on-one big interview, as well as a series of special probes into issues that have the Northern Ireland public worked up. Stephen says: I m genuinely excited about this new television format for The Nolan Show. It adds a whole new dimension to Nolan on BBC Northern Ireland and gives us another platform to really grapple with the subjects that are getting under people s skin. Stephen Nolan is back on BBC One NI with The Nolan Show We ll be having the big debate, delving The Nolan Show, BBC One Northern into developing news stories, devoting Ireland, starts Wednesday, April 25 at even more time into asking the questions 10.35pm. that count and, more importantly, ensuring The public are invited to join Stephen in the we strive for the answers and results our live studio audience. Tickets are available at viewers expect and deserve. bbc.co.uk/tickets 3
Glory Days A three part series of sporting highlights from Northern Ireland through the decades Glory Days, Monday, April 23, BBC One NI, 10.35pm Glory Days is a new three part series documenting Northern Ireland s sporting highlights in the seventies, eighties and nineties. Starting on Monday, April 23 on BBC One NI at 10.35pm the series presented by Jackie Fullerton will bring sports fans on a nostalgic trip down memory lane with footage from their best loved sports and sporting heroes. In the first programme we relive the seventies with footage from Dame Mary Peters in Munich in 1972, George Best s sister Grace Best playing football and rare footage of Alex Higgins. The audience can also see footage from the Lions Rugby tour of South Africa in 1974, women s wrestling, Mudplugging, Beer barrel racing in Ballycastle, crazy mini motorsports and even croquet and tiddlywinks! The programme will also include interviews with the sports stars themselves including Olympian Mary Peters; legendary sports journalist, Malcolm Brodie; sports fan, Eamonn Holmes; boxing hero, Barry McGuigan; rugby commentator, Jim Neilly; former rugby union footballer, Willie John McBride; motorsports commentator, Alan Tyndell; former NI international Gerry Armstrong and BBC Radio Ulster s, Liam Beckett, Wendy Austin and John Bennett. Jackie Fullerton presents the new series of Glory Days on BBC One NI 4
Footage includes the late George Best playing aginst England at Windsor Park Speaking about seeing NI v England at Windsor Park in 1972, Eamonn Holmes says: That was the first football match I ever went to. We as supporters probably felt it was him (George Best) against the rest of them, even though it wasn t there were some very good names in that Northern Ireland side. When you were watching Mary Peters pictured returning to Belfast after her Olympic win Bestie it was like watching a pop star on stage. It was showbiz. The second and third episodes in the series will cover the decades of the eighties and the nineties including footage of Barry McGuigan s World Championship fight at Loftus Road, the unforgettable Black Ball Fi- The programme features footage of the late Alex Higgins nal between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis as well as recalling highlights of local sporting legends like Bertie Fisher, Dave Boy McAuley, Eddie Irvine, David Humphries, Tony McCoy and Joey and Robert Dunlop. Glory Days, Monday, April 23, BBC One NI, 10.35pm 5
Farm Week Live A week-long celebration of farming on BBC Radio Ulster Dawn Chorus, Saturday, April 21 at 6.15am Farm Week Live, Monday, April 23 to Friday, April 27, 10am 10.30am Hugo Duncan Outside broadcast from Greenmount, Wednesday, April 25, 1.30pm BBC Radio Ulster is having a weeklong celebration of farming. Every morning from April 23rd at 10am- 10.30am the station will broadcast live from farms across Northern Ireland, bringing you everything from spring lambs and daily milking, to the Kilkeel pig farm that s a big hit in Korea, and you ll even meet the part-time farmer who also sells dresses. Each day presenters Enda McClafferty and Helen Mark, who are both farmers, will report live from farmyards, including that of the McFarlane family in Dungiven, where they expect 120 lambs to be born every day, and the Martin dairy farm in Dromintee in South Armagh, where the computer decides when the calves get fed. Helen Mark says: Being part of a farming family agriculture is regularly discussed, debated and complained about so in a way being part of Farm Week Live is just an extension of that. And what a great opportunity this is to get an inside view of a world of work and a way of life that has an impact on all our lives - from the food we eat to the way our countryside looks. So I ve wellies to the ready and sleeves rolled up because there will be no standing back when it gets a bit mucky! Enda McClafferty & Helen Mark 6
grammes, starting at 10am every day. In the first programme (April, 23) Enda gets to know the McFarlanes in Dungiven, our host farm for the week, and will be finding out how their spring lambs are faring. Helen heads to south Armagh to milk cows at the Martin farm in Dromintee, and Anne Marie McAleese learns how to shampoo a cow. On Tuesday, (April, 24) Enda and Helen are both live from the McFarlane farm as they help out with stock counts, feeding and tagging sheep. Helen also visits one of the biggest pig farms in Northern Ireland, Glenmarshall Sires, Kilkeel, and John Toal learns some tricks of the trade at a cattle mart in Dungannon. Hugo Duncan Enda McClafferty says: I was a town dweller with no experience of farming until I met my wife Marina and moved on to their family farm in St Johnston in Donegal 20 years ago. It was a rude awakening. In the first week I had to assist the vet with a caesarean section on a cow. I helped deliver countless calves and foals after that and I even tried my hand at castrating bulls. An experience the bulls and I will never forget. It was a steep learning curve. The series launches on Saturday, April 21 with a dawn chorus from Co Down at 6.15am. Later that morning on Your Place and Mine, Anne Marie McAleese will link up live with Helen Mark at the McFarlane farm, and at 10am on Saturday Magazine John Toal will be that one man and his whistle as he learns how to train a sheepdog. On Monday, Farm Week Live really gets going with a daily series of half hour pro- On Wednesday, (April, 25) Helen and Enda join the 100th anniversary celebrations at Greenmount Agricultural College in County Antrim. There ll be a special discussion with Greenmount students on the future of farming and Helen and Enda will get a taste of campus life. On Thursday, (April, 26) Helen is back on the McFarlane farm as lambing continues, Enda examines the serious issue of farming accidents, and Lynette Fay spends the day with a female vet. On Friday, (April, 27), to round up the week, Helen Mark meets the residents of Mourne Grange Organic Farm, and Enda McClaffety will be putting some new born lambs out to graze in Dungiven. As part of this week long celebration of farm life in Northern Ireland Hugo Duncan will be taking his show on Wednesday, April 25 to Greenmount Agricultural College. Hugo Duncan says: Down through the last year or so I ve met lots of young students from the college asking me when I was coming to do an outside broadcast from Anne Marie McAleese Greenmount. I told them I d love to do it and after being down around the grounds of the college earlier this week and meeting the young people and feeling the great positive energy there - I can t wait to get back. Listeners can also log on to the Farm Week Live Facebook page: facebook.com/bbcfarmweeklive 7
Helen Mark Enda McClafferty Carrowmena Farm has been my home for over 30 years. It s just outside Limavady on the flatlands along the edge of Lough Foyle, while behind us we have the towering and craggy face of Binevenagh Mountain a fantastic location that I love. I was, before arriving in NI all those years ago from Scotland, a townie so adapting to farm life was a bit of a challenge. But I ve relished every moment well perhaps not the tramping of dirty wellies through the house, I ve never got used to the smell of fermented silage yuk! and I could get a bit crabbit about lamb milk powder being spilt over my kitchen surfaces but as I keep being told it all comes with the job! We have two boys both raised on the farm, the eldest of whom is following in his father s footsteps. I help where I can from being the go-for, stopping the gaps when shifting livestock and helping out with lambing but as with most farm households these days I work off-site not least in the world of broadcasting. Coming home from my travels though and catching that first view of the home farm is one of the best feelings in the world! On our farm we also keep horses for show jumping and a potbellied pig which was a birthday present many years ago. It s always good to have someone about the house who has more chins than me. Her name is Winnie. We have three daughters, twins Jade and Kellie who are 11 and 7-year old Chloe. They share their mother s passion for horses and know more about farming than me. 8