Best of Talkback podcast
For those who are interested the feed for the Best of Talkback podcast is now available ready for the first edition.
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John Laird for Christmas?
John Laird (Lord Laird of Artigarvan) is unionism’s jester. His memoir A Struggle To Be Heard ” by a True Ulster Liberal” (from Slugger’s shop on Amazon here) might serve more as a heavy stocking filler than anybody’s idea of a main present. In it he wears the masks of comedy and tragedy to turn the [...] read our review »
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Voices from the Grave
Coming up to the Halloween holiday, some people might be frightened of the idea of Voices from the Grave – but for others, the chance to hear an oral history of the Troubles from the mouths of two (in)famous protagonists, PUP leader and former UVF member David Ervine, and Brendan “The Dark” Hughes, is not [...] read our review »
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Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
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Best of Talkback eh,
Well, i’ve got 30 seconds to spare so should have time to listen to it…
Best of Nolan shouldn’t even take that long of course.
Cheers! What else is on the BBC website?
By far and away at the moment the best podcast on the BBC is “in our time” with Melvyn Bragg.
Over here: Genuine thanks but I was being sarcastic.
BBC is one of the world’s most popular sites and most of us check it out. Still, slugger seems to feel the need to pick up on everything they do and run it here, often in a fawning “Martina Purdy’s done an amazing report on the latest DUP Press Release….” kinda way.
billie-Joe given that Slugger basically aggregates all Northern Ireland media as a starting point for commentary and discussion why wouldn’t they link to BBC stuff?