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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jan 6, 2021 • 29min
Union flak?
Has the DUP fired the starting gun on its 2022 election campaign?
Dec 16, 2020 • 32min
Covid-19 in 2020
Mark Carruthers is joined by Health Correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly, Jayne McCormack and Enda McClafferty to look back on what a global pandemic has changed in 2020.
Dec 9, 2020 • 29min
Talks, deals and a 'forty foot barge pole'
Mark Carruthers discusses deal-making in Brussels and Belfast with Gareth Gordon, columnist Mary Kelly and former Number 10 spin doctor Tom Kelly.
Dec 2, 2020 • 32min
Legacy troubles
Mark Carruthers is joined by former Victims' Commissioner Judith Thompson, Rev Dr Lesley Carroll from the Eames Bradley Group, and Alan McBride from the WAVE Trauma Centre.
Nov 25, 2020 • 28min
Centenary Sensitivities
Mark Carruthers is joined by Professor Pete Shirlow, columnist Andrée Murphy and Professor Duncan Morrow to discuss marking the centenary of Northern Ireland.
Nov 18, 2020 • 27min
Mandatory collision
Mark Carruthers is joined by Sam McBride, Suzanne Breen and John Manley to ask if the system of government at Stormont makes fighting a global pandemic impossible.
Nov 11, 2020 • 35min
The Biden Identity
Mark Carruthers is joined by Fintan O'Toole, Norman Houston and Brendan O'Neill to discuss the new man heading to the White House.
Nov 4, 2020 • 29min
Union flagging?
Mark C is joined by Lesley Riddoch, David Maddox & Patrick Maguire.
Oct 28, 2020 • 30min
Polls: Leaders, parties & the border
Mark Carruthers chats to Suzanne Breen, Chris Donnelly and Newton Emerson.
Oct 21, 2020 • 34min
Devenport departs
Gareth Gordon, Enda McClafferty, Jayne McCormack and Stephen Walker join Mark Carruthers to interrogate and tease the outgoing BBC NI Political Editor, Mark Devenport.
