Your Farm and Mine

Your Farm and Mine

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Your Farm and Mine episodes

  • "Extreme fashion" in Randalstown and a Seaplane in Fermanagh
    The Ulster History Circle recognises the artist, Gladys McCabe from Randalstown, who was the first president of the Ulster Society of Women Artists, in Belfast, and who loved to report on 'extreme fashion' for the Ulster Tatler. And Anne Marie McAleese takes to the air in a seaplane at St Angelo Airport in Fermanagh, in the company of pilot, Steve Powell.
    14 min
  • North West 200
    Anne Marie McAleese with guest presenter, Helen Mark, presents a special Your Place and Mine podcast from the North West 200 in Portstewart. They hear from fans, soaking up the atmosphere of the biggest outdoor sporting event in Northern Ireland. They remember the great racers, Joey and Robert Dunlop, hear from the UK's fastest woman motorcycle racer, Maria Costello from Northampton in England, and speak to Claire Lomas, who has rebuilt her life following a horse-riding accident in 2007, as she prepared to lap the race course for charity in a specially adapted bike.
    17 min
  • A Royal Hillsborough Flourish
    In a special podcast to mark the coronation of King Charles III, a new bugle fanfare is played for the first time. The Royal Hillsborough Flourish was composed and performed by Andrew Carlisle from Ballynahinch. And Helen Mark finds out about the dress worn by one of the six Maids of Honour on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Lady Moyra Campbell, who grew up at Baronscourt in County Tyrone, helped to carry the robe of state and later served as the Queen's lady-in-waiting. Her son, Rory, spoke to Helen Mark about her role in that historic day. Presented by Anne Marie McAleese.
    16 min
  • "He's our red squirrel dog!"
    Conservation dog, Rufus, is a trained red squirrel detector. Dr Caroline Finlay, from the group, Conservation Detection Dogs NI, says her dogs help red squirrels, bats, and wildlife, by detecting the sick and injured. And for Rufus it's a game he adores.
    And there's a piano wagon in Bangor in County Down, which means that children don't go to piano lessons: the piano lessons come to them. Their slogan is 'the fastest way from A to G'. Helen Mark met Roisin McCrisken, the woman who invented the piano wagon.
    15 min
  • "When you lose the language of the landscape you lose a part of an area."
    A group from Loughros Point, the peninsula near Ardara in County Donegal, have gathered 600 Irish, English and Scots place names all from that one area. Conor Whyte tells Anne Marie McAleese that the Loughros Heritage Group's project grew from concerns over losing those historic names for ever. They have now produced book called Placenames & Tales of Nooks and Crannies.
    And Thomas McNeill from Aghadowey near Coleraine is a sculptor and dairy farmer whose artistic work has been recognised by the Royal Ulster Academy. He meets Ronan Lundy at his studio, beside his milking parlour.
    17 min
  • "They're known as the clowns of the ocean!"
    Puffins - also known as clowns of the ocean, or sea parrots - nest every year on the cliff stacks at the Rathlin West light Seabird Centre off the Antrim coast.
    Liam McFaul, RSPB NI Rathlin Reserves Warden told Anne Marie McAleese he has been keeping an eye on them.
    And on the Soldierstown Road between Moira and Aghalee there's another great RSPB Reserve at Portmore Lough - this one is grassland with meadows, cows, geese, whooper swans and Konik ponies. Former Assistant Warden Laura Smith told Anne Marie why the ponies are so important to the health of the reserve.
    13 min
  • "They left a stone, and had one last look at home."
    Nodlaig Brolly visits Carntogher in County Derry 500 metres high on the hills above the Glenshane Pass, to pay tribute to the emigrants who once left stones as they made their way on foot from mid Ulster to the ships in Derry that would take them to the New World, and she performs her song, the Emigrants' Carn.
    And Dr Esther Skelly-Smith from Katesbridge in County Down has just become the new President of the Northern Ireland Branch of the British Veterinary Association and the President of the North Of Ireland Veterinary Association.
    Presented by Anne Marie McAleese.
    14 min
  • Mullylusty Cottage, Margaret Gallagher's traditional thatched home.
    About 20 minutes or so from Enniskillen on the way to Belcoo there's a bend in the road near the village that reveals a whitewashed thatched cottage that's hard to miss. It's Mullylusty, where Margaret Gallagher was born and has always lived, without running water, electricity or gas. Anne Marie McAleese visited her a number of years ago in Margaret's 200 year old home.
    And Mary McArthy explains that Glenravel, in County Antrim has several names, and why it is the unofficial tenth glen.
    Photograph copyright Eric Jones and licensed for reuse under Geograph Creative Commons Licence.
    11 min

About Your Farm and Mine

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Eve Blair travels across Northern Ireland, meeting local farmers in every county to hear what matters most to the people who keep the countryside running, while experiencing both the challenges and…

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