
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Is the island of Ireland where Brexit will matter most? Edward Stourton visits Londonderry, right on the Irish border, to explore what's at stake as the UK leaves the EU. Some locals fear the border across Ireland - as the EU's new external border - will harden, causing great practical and economic difficulty and even threatening the Northern Ireland peace process. Others say change the will matter far less, and that peace is now guaranteed. While people in Derry ask anxious questions, we'll hear too how policy makers in London and Dublin face a particular challenge in making Brexit work.
By BBC Radio 44.6
195195 ratings
Is the island of Ireland where Brexit will matter most? Edward Stourton visits Londonderry, right on the Irish border, to explore what's at stake as the UK leaves the EU. Some locals fear the border across Ireland - as the EU's new external border - will harden, causing great practical and economic difficulty and even threatening the Northern Ireland peace process. Others say change the will matter far less, and that peace is now guaranteed. While people in Derry ask anxious questions, we'll hear too how policy makers in London and Dublin face a particular challenge in making Brexit work.

7,700 Listeners

368 Listeners

887 Listeners

790 Listeners

1,044 Listeners

5,436 Listeners

1,794 Listeners

948 Listeners

1,777 Listeners

1,076 Listeners

1,926 Listeners

432 Listeners

419 Listeners

300 Listeners

65 Listeners

736 Listeners

246 Listeners

73 Listeners

647 Listeners

4,175 Listeners

3,191 Listeners

738 Listeners

73 Listeners