GULWALI PASSARLAY moved the discourse about refugees away from statistics and gave it a human face at tonight’s annual Amnesty NI lecture at Belfast International Arts Festival as he described his 7000 mile 12 month journey through 10 countries aged 10 to escape Afghanistan.
War photographers must be wired differently to the rest of us. They feel fear, yet they seem to suppress the instinct to do anything about it. They are calm in the middle of a disrupted and dangerous reality. Paul Conroy opened the Amnesty lecture at Belfast Festival with the tale of how he first met journalist Marie Colvin and travelled around the Middle East by raft, boat, road and driven on the back of a motorcycle through minefields. Leaving countries …
Northern Ireland: Who Are We Now? was broadcast on Radio 4 on the eve of Derry~Londonderry taking on the mantle of UK’s City of Culture. Presented by William Crawley and produced by Claire Burgoyne, the half hour programme used the national identity census results as a way in to discuss possible shifting self-perceptions and the conundrum of how we describe ourselves. While there were a lack of There weren’t too many extreme polarised views from contributors to the programme, but …
