

Red Lines
BBC Radio Ulster
The back-stop’s here? Bad puns with top political coverage from Northern Ireland. Red Lines brings you essential analysis and commentary by BBC NI’s politics team.
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Oct 20, 2021 • 31min
Political fact and fiction
Mark Carruthers is joined by Glenn Patterson and Brian McGilloway who've written books and articles galore about the people and the politics of Ireland north and south.

Oct 13, 2021 • 30min
It's Complicated!
Mark Carruthers is joined by the BBC's former Ireland Correspondents, Mark Simpson & James Helm, plus the New Statesman's Political Correspondent, Ailbhe Rea, to discuss the challenges of reporting the politics of this place

Oct 5, 2021 • 29min
Conference calling
Mark Carruthers is joined by Gareth Gordon, Julia Langdon and former NIO Minister, Sir Richard Needham to ask whether Northern Ireland still matters to the Conserative Party.

Sep 29, 2021 • 29min
Pact Hunch
Mark & guests discuss Northern Ireland's electoral pacts of the past and present.

Sep 22, 2021 • 30min
Northern Writes
Mark & guests review how the Dublin media report on stories from & about Northern Ireland

Sep 15, 2021 • 37min
Writ and Wrong
Mark Carruthers is joined by libel lawyer Paul Tweed, the Belfast Telegraph's Sam McBride and former journalist and now Ulster Unionist MLA, Mike Nesbitt, to discuss his Private Members' Bill on updating defamation law in Northern Ireland.

Sep 8, 2021 • 31min
Here we go again...
With a new term at Stormont and an election on the way - Mark Carruthers as is joined by Health Correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly, Business & Economics Editor, John Campbell & Political Editor, Enda McClafferty to discuss the challenges ahead.

Jun 23, 2021 • 30min
The rise & fall of Edwin Poots
Mark is joined by BBC's Mark Simpson, Belfast Telegraph's Suzanne Breen & the News Letter's Sam McBride

Jun 16, 2021 • 29min
Sinn Féin's gambit?
Mark chats to Enda McClafferty, Suzanne Breen & Chris Donnelly about Sinn Féin's Stormont strategy.

Jun 9, 2021 • 28min
How to make capital on the Hill
Mark Carruthers asks Peter Sheridan from Co-Operation Ireland, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Washington commentator Shane Greer who best speaks for Northern Ireland in Washington.


