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🎞️ From The Archives! 🎞️

'We Fought On D-Day' airs TONIGHT at 10PM on BBC TWO NI.

As part of the 80th anniversary commemorations of the D-Day landings, this documentary recounts the stories of the local men from Northern Ireland who fought for the beaches, towns and villages of Normandy on 6 June 1944.

Available on BBC iPlayer

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📣 Another chance to catch Pitch Invasion!

📺 10.30PM BBC One Saturday 1st June

Pitch Invasion: How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football

All three episodes available on BBC iPlayer now!


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Best, Dalglish, O’Neill, Shankly, Ferguson, Brady, Busby, Keane…
They are among the icons and legends of English football’s top tier who were pivotal in making the league’s big-name clubs some of the most dominant and successful across England and conquered Europe’s elite club competitions.

Players and managers from Scotland and from the island of Ireland shaped English football’s top flight in a way that still resonates to this day.

With contributions from superstars of the era including Graeme Souness, Martin O’Neill, George Graham, John Aldridge, Charlie Nicholas and Niall Quinn, football fans can savour archive footage of these legends of the game with each episode focusing on a particular forte: Genius, Guts and Glory.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of our dear friend Gerry Dawe. It was our great pleasure and privilege to have known and worked with him. We think of Gerry and his beloved family.

Gerald Dawe - Out of the Ordinary
Airs Tuesday 20th February 10.40pm on BBC Northern Ireland

Catch it now on BBC iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001wg1k/gerald-dawe-out-of-the-ordinary

An intimate profile of poet Gerald Dawe, who was born in Belfast in 1952.

In his writing, Gerald has explored the meeting ground between his own personal experience and the political and cultural realities. For Gerald, that personal experience began with a childhood in north Belfast: growing up in a household of women (mother, grandmother and sister) and in a city shaped by its industrial past. It was also a society – in Gerald’s experience – that was unmistakably British and still coming to terms with the aftermath of the war.

Cultural touchstones for Gerald – children’s comics and toys that were read and played with, radio and television programmes that were listened to and watched, advertising, food and drink that was consumed – all came with a British imprint and enduring resonance.

In the 1960s, Gerald embraced a very different Belfast - one that revolved around music. Notably Them and Van Morrison, but also visiting artists such as the Small Faces and Cream. For Gerald, Belfast was a city in which, after a night out, you could walk a girl home to any of its four corners.

As the 60s drew to a close, the curtain came down – and with it the realisation, for Gerald, that the poison had always been there. It was just that his world of the 60s had hidden it for him. The bitter sectarianism that swept over his home city and the rest of Northern Ireland came close to home, with the 1975 sectarian killing of another aspiring young poet.

Gerald Dawe - Out of the Ordinary airs Tuesday 20th February 10.40pm on BBC Northern Ireland

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Michael Longley - Where Poems Come From

Airs TONIGHT Monday 12th February 10.40PM BBC Northern Ireland

Catch it on BBC iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wdpy

An intimate film profile of Belfast poet Michael Longley, offering insights into his work, friendships, working process, the places that have inspired him and his relationship with his wife Edna.

After studying classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Michael moved back north with his wife, the literary critic Edna Longley, in 1965, shortly before the period of the Troubles began. By this time, Michael had already established his own personal, lyric style and was wary of writing about an obviously sectarian conflict.

Nonetheless, in several poems he spoke out directly against the senseless inhumanity of the killing on both sides. When the first glimmer of the peace process arrived with the IRA ceasefire in 1994, his poem Ceasefire touched many people:

’I get down on my knees and do what must be done
And kiss Achilles’ hand, the killer of my son’.

Increasingly, it is as a poet of nature that Michael has found his unique voice, with delicate, highly atmospheric lyric poems about flowers, birds and wildlife, particularly the magical landscape around the cottage in Carrigskeewaun in County Mayo, which he and Edna visit regularly. With its barnacle geese, rare butterflies and sea otters, this has become the source of many of Michael’s finest poems.

Michael has been awarded many international prizes, including the prestigious Feltrinelli International Poetry Prize in 2022.

Like all great poets, Michael captures the universal, and now in his eighties, he is still writing at the top of his game.

Airs Monday 12th February 10.40PM BBC Northern Ireland

Catch it on BBC iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wdpy

Aonaracht airs Sunday 11th February at 10pm on BBC TWO NI
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wdpw

Úna Monaghan explores the opportunities that arise when traditional folk music is confronted with new ideas, breaking all the rules.

A new feature-length documentary follows the Belfast harpist, composer and sound engineer as she records her latest experimental album, Aonaracht. Úna has spent a lifetime steering the course between science and art, examining the intersections between Irish traditional music, experimental music, improvisation and interactive technologies. Influenced by the work of John Cage, Úna has made the form her own.

Aonaracht is one of her most ambitious projects to date, and Úna must now convince other top traditional musicians to embrace the art form she is pioneering: recording an album of solo performances with electronics.

Fiosraíonn Úna Monaghan na féidearthachtaí nuair a bhuaileann ceol traidisiúnta na hÉireann in éadan smaointe nua, a thugann dúshlán do na rialacha.
Leanann fadscannán faisnéise nua an cláirseoir, cumadóir agus innealtóir fuaime agus í i mbun albam úr trialach a thaifeadadh - Aonaracht.

Tá blianta fada caite ag Úna ag obair idir eolaíocht agus ealaíon, agus ag scrúdú na gcrosbhealaí idir ceol traidisiúnta na hÉireann, ceol trialach, tobchumadh agus teicneolaíocht idirghníomhach. Bhí tionchar ag saothar John Cage uirthi, agus le tamall anuas tá a clú féin tuillte ag Úna sa seánra.

Agus Aonaracht ar cheann de na tograí is uaillmhianaí dá cuid, tá ar Úna anois áitiú ar sárcheoltóirí traidisiúnta eile a muinín a chur inti agus sa seánra atá á chur chun cinn aici: ag taifeadadh albam rianta aonaracha measctha le leictreonaic.

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📺 Tonight on BBC ONE NI at 10.40pm 📺 BBC Northern Ireland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001vphw/pitch-invasion-how-the-scottish-and-irish-changed-football

Pitch Invasion: How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football

EPISODE 2: GUTS

In the early 1970s, Leeds United was the team that personified guts on the pitch and was the dominant force in English football. Central to this success was their tough tackling midfield, led by Irishman Johnny Giles and their Scottish captain Billy Bremner.

In Ireland & Northern Ireland budding young footballers developed not only their skills but also their physical and mental toughness playing Gaelic games. Players like Niall Quinn, Neil Lennon and Martin O’Neill share their experiences on making it to the top of the English game.

The ‘Edinburgh enforcer’, Graeme Souness career saw him win league titles and European cups with Liverpool FC. However, Souness’ journey to the top of the English game began like many players before him - with rejection at his first big club.

Tune in tonight for these stories and more - or watch all 3 episodes now on BBC iPlayer

📺 Tonight @ 10.40pm!

Episode 1 of Pitch Invasion airs tonight at 10.40pm on BBC One Northern Ireland.

Or catch up on all episodes now on BBC iPlayer ⚽️

NI’s contribution to England’s top tier in spotlight | IFA Northern Ireland players past and present feature in a new BBC series which explores the impact that players and managers from Northern Ireland, the Republic...

⚽️ New Series!

Pitch Invasion: How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football

📣 All three episodes available on BBC iPlayer Sunday 21st January.

📺 Or watch live on TV on BBC Northern Ireland on Tuesday 23rd January at 10.40pm.

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Best, Dalglish, O’Neill, Shankly, Ferguson, Brady, Busby, Keane…

They are among the icons and legends of English football’s top tier who were pivotal in making the league’s big-name clubs some of the most dominant and successful across England and conquered Europe’s elite club competitions.

Players and managers from Scotland and from the island of Ireland shaped English football’s top flight in a way that still resonates to this day.

A new three-part BBC series from DoubleBand Films explores the seismic influence those key players and managers from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have had on English football.

With contributions from superstars of the era including Graeme Souness, Martin O’Neill, George Graham, John Aldridge, Charlie Nicholas and Niall Quinn, football fans can savour archive footage of these legends of the game with each episode focusing on a particular forte: Genius, Guts and Glory.

There are also insights from the current crop of players and managers into their careers at the top level. These include: Aston Villa’s John McGinn, West Ham manager David Moyes, Manchester United’s Jonny Evans, Aston Villa and Scotland captain Rachel Corsie and Wigan Athletic’s Josh Magennis.

Narrated by Rhona Cameron, the series features well-known faces from the world of sport and entertainment recalling their memories and analysing this golden era for their homegrown players including Patrick Kielty, Amy Irons, Eilidh Barbour, Sanjeev Kohli and Ardal O’Hanlon.

The Band – Series 3 - A new series from DoubleBand Films returns to BBC Northern Ireland starting Wednesday 17 January at 10.40pm on BBC One Northern Ireland with all three episodes available after the first episode airs on BBC iPlayer

It takes discipline, commitment and hard work to be part of a marching band with members devoting much of their lives to their music and community.

Co-funded by the Ulster Scots Broadcast Fund, The Band returns to BBC Northern Ireland for a third series, exploring the vibrant musical heritage passed down from generation-to-generation and the dedicated musicians – passionate about their band.

For the first time, the series follows two Northern Ireland bands competing at the World Pipe Band Championships, a piper who overcame huge personal adversity to play again, and a young man with a disability who has gained a sense of identity playing with his band.

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We are very proud to announce that 'James Joyce's Ulysses' has been nominated for Best Arts Documentary at the 2023 Grierson Awards.

Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero

Airs Monday 4th September 10pm Channel 4

The N**i invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 resulted in some of the most horrific massacres and acts of genocide perpetrated during the Second World War – not least in Ukraine.

At one site alone – Babyn Yar, on the outskirts of Kyiv – almost 34,000 Jews were shot by the N**is over one weekend in September 1941. One month earlier 23,600 Jews were massacred at the Ukrainian town of Kamianets-Podilskyi.

These atrocities in Ukraine were among the N**is’ first acts of mass murder in pursuit of the Final Solution. Acts that led to little-known war crimes trials in the Soviet Union, including the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Kyiv, all captured on extraordinary Soviet archive film.

With contributions from survivors of the Holocaust, along with leading historians including Wendy Lower, Omer Bartov, Dieter Pohl and Alex J Kay, this is the story of Ukraine during the Second World War. Of the beginning of the Holocaust - on one of Europe’s bloodiest battlegrounds.

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Honoured to be shortlisted for the 2023 Grierson Awards for our documentary "ARENA - JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES".

Still available to watch on BBC iplayer for another month 📺 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bvp2

Revealing the 2023 shortlist 🏆 (in association with All3Media)

See which documentaries earned themselves a place in the next round of judging across 16 film categories: https://bit.ly/3Dho36D

ENVY Post Production Best Single Documentary – Domestic
HBO Documentary Films Best Single Documentary – International
Televisual Best Current Affairs Documentary
Best Arts Documentary
Best Music Documentary
Broadcast Sport Best Sports Documentary
Best History Documentary
The Open University Best Science Documentary
Best Natural History or Environmental Documentary
Best Entertaining Documentary
Best Cinema Documentary
Netflix Best Documentary Series
Channel 4 Best Constructed Documentary Series
Fulwell 73 Productions Best Documentary Short
All3Media Best Student Documentary
Disney+ Best Documentary Presenter

Congratulations to all involved 💫 Enormous thanks to our reviewers and chairs for their work whittling down a lot of incredible documentaries to produce this shortlist.

The shortlisted docs will now go to our panels of judges to decide on the nominees and winner in each category. The nominees will be announced on September.

PLUS – the Sky Grierson Hero of the Year Award is now open for nominations! You can nominate the person who’s gone above and beyond working behind the scenes in docs/factual TV. What’s more, it’s completely free to nominate. Find out more on our website and nominate by 15 September.

The awardee of the BBC Grierson Trustees’ Award will be announced in the autumn. The award is given to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the documentary genre and is decided by our Board of Trustees.

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A Stitch Through Time, presented by Claire McCollum returns for a second series combining a passion for fashion with inspiration drawn from the rich Ulster-Scots legacy in our textile history.

Episode one of the new series airs Monday 17th July on BBC Northern Ireland at 8PM

In the series, four of Northern Ireland’s best emerging fashion designers take on sustainability and design-based challenges, against the clock, to prove they have what it takes to make it in the cut and thrust world of contemporary fashion.

Vying to win the votes of the judges – top designers Una Rodden Couture and Katie Larmour Linen – and be crowned winner of A Stitch Through Time are: fashion graduate Annie McColgan, 24, from Portadown; DIY fashion influencer AJ Tinsley, 25, from Belfast; Fashion & Textiles student Aoife Harvey, 23, from Londonderry; and 3D fashion designer Giovana de Bona, 27, originally from Brazil, living in Bushmills.

Each week, host Claire will be joined by author and textile historian Bruce Clark, a descendent of one of Northern Ireland’s great linen families, to reveal the fascinating history behind the design challenges and the outfits.

The first episode on Monday 17 July, BBC One Northern Ireland at 8pm, is inspired by the Herdman family of Sion Mills, who had a vision of creating a model village and achieved it against all odds. The first challenge tasks the designers with making an apron from pre-loved linen garments while in the six-hour challenge, the designers must create a ‘Sunday Best’ look from linen.

A Stitch Through Time is also available on BBC iPlayer, and is made by DoubleBand Films, with assistance from the Northern Ireland Screen Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund Northern Ireland Screen.

Carl Frampton: Men in Crisis available now on BBC iPlayer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001lw9z/carl-frampton-men-in-crisis

Carl Frampton: Men in Crisis airs Monday 8th May on BBC Northern Ireland at 10.30pm

Two-time world champion boxer Carl Frampton embarks on a journey to understand why so many young men in Northern Ireland are struggling with their mental health and how challenging stereotypes can help more men talk openly about how they feel.

Northern Ireland has a mental health crisis. More men die by su***de in Northern Ireland than any other part of the UK, and in some areas, including where Carl grew up, it has the highest rates of su***de in Europe.

In this hard-hitting documentary, Carl speaks to experts about the challenges facing young men in Northern Ireland and what support exists for those who do seek help. Carl opens up for the first time about the things that have made him feel angry, isolated and ashamed and meets other young men who are breaking the silence on their own mental health story.

Lost Lives, a film inspired by the book of the same name airs TONIGHT Sunday 2nd April at 10pm on BBC Northern Ireland

The Prime Ministers Of Northern Ireland presented by Professor Alvin Jackson starts TONIGHT Monday 27 March at 10.40pm on BBC One NI. The full series will be available on BBC iPlayer.

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Alvin Jackson tells the stories of the six prime ministers who presided over the Stormont government from 1921 to 1972, and reveals how they shaped the history of Northern Ireland.

From the birth of the state in 1921 to the fall of the Stormont administration in 1972, six men held the post of Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

Historian Alvin Jackson looks back on the complex legacies and key moments that defined the time in office of Sir James Craig, John Andrews, Sir Basil Brooke, Terence O’Neill, James Chichester-Clark and Brian Faulkner.

He examines how actions of these men, and the decisions they made, helped shape Northern Ireland for more than 50 years, and right up to the present day. But for many, they are largely unknown figures.

The first episode sees Alvin explore the challenging early years as prime minister for Sir James Craig, as he battled several internal and external threats to the survival of the state. He also studies the man tasked with succeeding him, John Andrews, who inherited a difficult legacy and faced challenges of his own, such as the bombing of Belfast by Hitler’s Luftwaffe.

Later in the series, Alvin looks at how the IRA’s border campaign in the 1950s was an attempt to undermine the premiership of Sir Basil Brooke, and how Terence O’Neill attempted to deliver reforms demanded by the Civil Rights movement.

Alvin then moves on to James Chichester-Clark, who was Northern Ireland's prime minister in the early period of the Troubles, and who took over control at a time of escalating violence and political turmoil. He was replaced by Brian Faulkner, who was the sixth and last prime minister of Northern Ireland. His time in office was brief and after only 12 months, 51 years of local devolved autonomy would come to a close on 30 March 1972 with the introduction of direct rule.

The Prime Ministers Of Northern Ireland was made for BBC Northern Ireland by DoubleBand Films. It starts Monday 27 March at 10.40pm on BBC One NI and the full series will also be available on BBC iPlayer.

My Name is Ottilie presented by Dana Masters Music airs Tomorrow, Friday 10th on BBC FOUR at 9PM



https://www.bbc.co.uk/.../epi.../m001ht97/my-name-is-ottilie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ht97 #:~:text=Soul%20singer%20Dana%20Masters%20asks,the%20godmother%20of%20British%20blues

Soul singer Dana Masters traces the story of Ottilie Patterson, who for a dazzling few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a pioneer of British music.
One night in 1959, a 27-year-old female singer took to the stage at Muddy Waters' renowned blues club in Chicago.
After a stunning set, a member of the rapturous African-American audience called out: “Hey lady, you sing real pretty. How come you sing like one of us?”
The singer was Ottilie Patterson. And she wasn’t black. She wasn’t even American. She was from the small town of Comber, in County Down, just ten miles from Belfast. A rising star of British jazz and blues music, she was the acclaimed singer with the Chris Barber Band who paved the way for bands like The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things, inspiring their passion for American blues.
Why did Ottilie, who became the UK’s first female blues singer to achieve near pop status and perform with legends like Muddy Waters, Ella Fitzgerald and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, disappear from the story of British music?
Singer-songwriter Dana Masters sees in Ottilie a woman whose story, in many respects, mirrors her own. Not just their shared love of jazz and blues, but how Ottilie travelled from Northern Ireland to find acceptance as a singer in black America, with Dana making the journey in reverse, to build a life and career in Ireland.
Featuring Jools Holland, Jacqui Dankworth, Dick Taylor (The Pretty Things), Stu Morrison (The Chris Barber Band), and blues musician Ronnie Greer, and a revealing, never-before-heard interview with Ottilie Patterson.
Dana discovers the challenges Ottilie faced as a woman in music in the late 1950s and 1960s, and the cost of a career devoted to performance, in a film which reclaims her rightful place in the history of British music.

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This feature-length documentary tells the story of Belfast boxer, Sean McComb, as he embarks on a professional career and deals with challenges both inside and outside the ring. CIOTÓG airs on BBC Two NI this Sunday 26th February at 22:00.

San fhadscannán faisnéise seo, insítear scéal an dornálaí Feirsteach Sean McComb atá ag tabhairt faoi ghairm phroifisiúnta agus ag dul i ngleic le dúshláin, laistigh agus lasmuigh den fháinne. Craolfar CIOTÓG ar an Domhnach beag seo, 26ú Feabhra ar 22:00 ar BBC Two NI.



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Belfast boxer Seán McComb is embarking on a professional boxing career, and over a period of years filming with him, his family and closest friends, we see how his career and personal life evolve, and how he deals with challenges he faces inside and outside the ring.

We gain insight into his intense training regime in Glasgow with fellow boxers Tyrone McKenna, Tyrone McCullough and Paddy Barnes. We are by his side as he walks, Pied Piper-like, from his nearby home in west Belfast to be greeted by thousands more at his big fight in 2019 in Falls Park, at Féile an Phobail. And we watch as, during the pandemic, McComb's career comes to a shuddering halt, but a new dawn appears in his personal life.

Filmed over three years, Ciotóg - translated as Southpaw - tracks the highs and lows of a boxer as he leaves the amateur world behind to make his mark in the professional game as a real title contender.

Tá an dornálaí Feirsteach Seán McComb ag tabhairt faoi ghairm phroifisiúnta dornálaíochta. I rith blianta scannánaíochta leis féin, lena mhuintir agus lena chairde cléibh, airíonn muid éabhlóid a shaoil phearsanta agus a shaoil ghairmiúil agus mar a théann sé i ngleic le dúshláin, laistigh agus lasmuigh den fháinne.

Faigheann muid léargas ar a réim dhian traenála i nGlaschú lena chomhdhornálaithe Tyrone McKenna, Tyrone McCullough agus Paddy Barnes.
Táimid lena thaobh agus é ar nós Pied Piper, ag siúl an achair ghearr óna theach in Iarthar Bhéal Feirste go dtí Páirc na bhFál, áit a bhfuil na mílte bailithe lena fháiltiú dá throid mhór ag Féile an Phobail 2019.
Agus feiceann muid, le linn na paindéime, mar a chuirtear stad tobann le gairm McComb - ach tá ré úr ina shaol pearsanta ar na bacáin!

Arna scannánú thar thréimhse trí bliana, leanann Ciotóg cora saoil an dornálaí, agus é ag fágáil slán le dornálaíocht amaitéarach lena rian a bhaint amach sa chluiche gairmiúil, mar fhíor-iomaitheoir teidil.

My Name is Ottilie presented by Dana Masters Music is available now on BBC iPlayer & will also be broadcast on Wednesday February 1st on BBC Northern Ireland at 10.40pm


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ht97/my-name-is-ottilie

Soul singer Dana Masters traces the story of Ottilie Patterson, who for a dazzling few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a pioneer of British music.

One night in 1959, a 27-year-old female singer took to the stage at Muddy Waters' renowned blues club in Chicago.

After a stunning set, a member of the rapturous African-American audience called out: “Hey lady, you sing real pretty. How come you sing like one of us?”

The singer was Ottilie Patterson. And she wasn’t black. She wasn’t even American. She was from the small town of Comber, in County Down, just ten miles from Belfast. A rising star of British jazz and blues music, she was the acclaimed singer with the Chris Barber Band who paved the way for bands like The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things, inspiring their passion for American blues.

Why did Ottilie, who became the UK’s first female blues singer to achieve near pop status and perform with legends like Muddy Waters, Ella Fitzgerald and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, disappear from the story of British music?

Singer-songwriter Dana Masters sees in Ottilie a woman whose story, in many respects, mirrors her own. Not just their shared love of jazz and blues, but how Ottilie travelled from Northern Ireland to find acceptance as a singer in black America, with Dana making the journey in reverse, to build a life and career in Ireland.

Featuring Jools Holland, Jacqui Dankworth, Dick Taylor (The Pretty Things), Stu Morrison (The Chris Barber Band), and blues musician Ronnie Greer, and a revealing, never-before-heard interview with Ottilie Patterson.

Dana discovers the challenges Ottilie faced as a woman in music in the late 1950s and 1960s, and the cost of a career devoted to performance, in a film which reclaims her rightful place in the history of British music.

We are hiring!

DoubleBand Films is looking for a PRODUCTION MANAGER and DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER to start ASAP.

More details and applications via Talent Manager:

Production Manager:
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Closing date 3rd Feb.

ROAD - on iPlayer for a limited time - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jhws7/road

Catch 'The Motorcycle Mavericks' on iPlayer now! - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001c5f0/the-motorcycle-mavericks

The Motorcycle Mavericks presented by Stephen Davison

***TONIGHT Tuesday 20th September | BBC One NI 10.40PM***



Road racing is a sport that is synonymous with Northern Ireland. Down through the years, local riders have become some of our biggest and most popular sporting stars.
But alongside the racing there is another story. One that tells us about a passion for engineering and innovation that was born out of Ulster’s rich industrial past.
In The Motorcycle Mavericks, road racing photographer and journalist Stephen Davison delves into this rich history. He discovers how road racing was used to help put Northern Ireland on the map back in the 1920s and goes in search of the men – and women – who have helped shape the sport since that time.
Along the way Stephen meets many of our top racers, including six-time World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea from Larne, Grand Prix winners Jeremy McWilliams from Belfast and Richard Creith from Bushmills, road racing legend Ray McCullough from Dromara and Jim Dunlop from the Ballymoney family forever associated with the sport.
Stephen also meets up with local racers Yvonne Montgomery and Melissa Kennedy to explore the role of women in the development of road racing, and explores the vital role played by innovators, engineers and entrepreneurs such as Harry Ferguson and Rex McCandless.
It is a journey in which Stephen uncovers a story of remarkable pioneers – many of them Ulster-Scots - who pursued and lived their dreams. It is the story of our motorcycle mavericks.

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James Joyce’s ULYSSES

*TONIGHT BBC Two 9PM*

One hundred years after its publication, Arena: James Joyce’s ULYSSES reveals the ta**ry, shocking, poetic, uplifting and gloriously kaleidoscopic humanity of Joyce’s masterpiece.

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