Between The Lines Podcast

This year the 7th Imagine! Belfast festival of ideas.

One of the speakers this year was Roman Krznaric. His talk is "ROMAN KRZNARIC: CAN WE REDESIGN DEMOCRACY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS?"

His new book is The Good Ancestor: How To Think Long Term in a Short-Term World.

Roman presented a number of slides during the presentation. You can see the most important ones at his website.

Peter O’Neill to introduces the talk.

Gordie Walker is back for a new series.

When Hughie Russell was born, his family were living in north Belfast. From there, he would go on to travel the world representing his sport at the highest level even winning a medal at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

Seamie O’Neill visited Hugh to talk about that boxing career and how it led to him becoming a highly respected photographer.

The podcast is supported by the Community Relations Council and funded through the Executive Office

The second lecture is about secret societies in Ireland. Many of these organisations began as secret but have over the years and decades, become mainstream social and political organisations. Many others are a mere memory – even a legend.

At the beginning of the first Covid lock-down this year, Intercomm started a series of public lectures given by Belfast historian Eamon Phoenix. And of course, these lectures had to be given online and live over Zoom.

Eamon is a distinguished historian and well-known broadcaster. He’s a teacher who tells stories and brings history to life.

Now, we are making some of the lectures available here on the Between the Lines podcast. And this is the first.

It was given in October this year during Black History Month.

Over 45 minutes, Eamon explores Belfast’s history during the slave trade, the relationship between the city and the early days of America and the Caribbean. Also, at a time when staues were being brought down in the US and Britain, he also talks about some of the statues around Belfast.

(Illustration: Olaudah Equiano known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa was a writer and abolitionist from, according to his memoir, the Eboe region of the Kingdom of Benin, today southern Nigeria.)

In this episode of the podcast we hear about Limestone United, a cross community football team that does a lot more than play football.

In recent times there have been incidences of anti-social behaviour along the interfaces involving both large and small groups of young people. Limestone United members have been out almost every night talking to the young people and trying to get to the bottom of the anti-social behaviour.

On Wednesday 27 March, Intercomm held a public consultation on an anti-hate crime initiative. The event in The Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts centre attracted scores of people who are active in organisations that support victims of hate crime or are engaged in anti-hate crime initiatives.

The event was a consultation event to raise awareness of hate crime and to pick a logo that will spearhead the campaign.

The campaign slogan in #NoPlaceforHate.

In this episode of Between The Lines, Leanne Marshall talks to three women who work with communities and families in north Belfast.

Geraldine O’Kane works in Whitewell Community Surgery, Maria McCaffery is with the Star Neighbourhood Centre, and Joan Totten North Belfast Alternatives.

We catch up with Margaret Duffy from Newington Housing who talks about Universal Credit.

We hear from youth workers from North Belfast who have just returned from a study visit of Manchester and Liverpool looking at the development of youth hubs.

Ray Griffin from Duncairn Arts talks to us about Super Sundays and how Arts, Music and creativity are helping to create a shared safe space for North Belfast.

Music this time comes from Conor Caldwell renowned composer and traditional fiddle player.

This is the second episode of the between the lines podcast with Gordie Walker.

This week, the Docker Poet John Campbell local historian, former dock worker poet and writer. 

Life with and without so called "peace walls"

And the "Imagine Peace Walls Project" project coordinator, Sarah Lorimer,

And music from Shock Treatment's Davy Treatment

Welcome to the first episode of the Between The Lines podcast with Gordie Walker. The team have been out and about collecting stories that we believe are interesting and help showcase some of the work that is going on in the north of the city and further afield