“I don’t want to photograph politicians any more, I don’t believe them any more…”

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Two engaging interviews from The Arts Show, this first is with the Portrait photographer Bobby Hanvey, and the other with the Irish News cartoonist of twenty five years, Ian Knox…

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Last word to Rowel Friars, a cartoonist who began his career before the Troubles started, speaking in a 1994 interview with the BBC

“When I started out it was general humour. But once the Troubles broke out we were in hell and I had to turn to the political scene, which frankly I had no interest in.

“I had no political leanings – the only side I took was sanity. I had no bias whatsoever, so I could criticise all round me.”

“At the beginning I got all sorts of threatening letters and phone calls. But it all settled down because people could see I was preaching peace and common sense.”

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