Living Air
Series reflecting the memories of a wide selection of radio listeners as a prelude to Making Connections: A Festival of Radio
Living Air - 18/10/2010
North Belfast-born writer and broadcaster Sam McAughtry with memories of his first, very brief, appearance on the wireless 70 years ago.
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Living Air - 19/10/2010
Writer and broadcaster Anita Robinson recalls her performance on Children's Hour in 1956 for which she received a one guinea book token.
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Living Air - 19/10/2010
Retired BBC National Governor and former head of the NI Civil Service, Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, recalls the wartime radio voices of the nation's leaders when he was eight years old.
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Living Air - 20/10/2010
1985 World Snooker Champion Denis Taylor remembers the childhood thrill of radio listening with his family at home in Co Tyrone over 50 years ago.
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Living Air - 20/10/2010
Fond memories of radio listening - starting with Children's Hour and Auntie Cicely - from Co Antrim actress Olivia Nash, who plays Ma in Give My Head Peace.
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Living Air - 21/10/2010
Poet, songwriter and university professor Paul Muldoon remembers the radio that sat in a cupboard beside the mantlepiece in his Co Armagh childhood home.
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Living Air - 21/10/2010
Anna Lo, Alliance Party MLA for South Belfast, recalls how listening to the radio helped to improve her English after moving to Ulster from Hong Kong in 1974.
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Living Air - 22/10/2010
Co Down singer-songwriter and broadcaster Tommy Sands, who has been taking his music all over the world for almost five decades, shares his fondest radio memories.
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Living Air - 22/10/2010
Belfast-born novelist and short story writer Bernard McLaverty recalls the wireless as the one voice in his home that didn't have a Belfast accent.
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Living Air - 25/10/2010
Pat Loughrey, former Head of BBC Nations and Regions and now Warden of Goldsmiths College, University of London, reflects on his radio memories.
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Living Air - 25/10/2010
Retired MD of Belfast publisher Blackstaff Press, Anne Tannahill, with vivid memories of childhood joy as the family gathered around the wireless at home in north Belfast.
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Living Air - 26/10/2010
Effervescent comic actress, writer and Ulster Queen of Comedy, Nuala McKeever recalls her childhood years in Belfast when the radio was for her a doorway to dreams.
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Living Air - 26/10/2010
Radio memories with John Morrow, a Belfast man who left school at 14 to work in the shipbuilding and linen industries before he began writing and broadcasting in the 1970s.
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Living Air - 27/10/2010
Ireland's leading sports commentator, Belfast-born George Hamilton, recalls his early journalistic career with Radio Ulster.
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Living Air - 27/10/2010
Ulster comedian Gene Fitzpatrick fondly remembers how, as a young man, he found his car radio was good for attracting girls.
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Living Air - 28/10/2010
Radio memories with Portadown-born Gloria Hunniford, one of the first voices on the newly-launched Radio Ulster in the 1970s, and now a household name across the UK.
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Living Air - 28/10/2010
Radio memories with a former cricketer and footballer who is now Ulster's best-known sports journalist - and a fine singer - Jackie Fullerton.
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Living Air - 29/10/2010
Belfast investigative journalist, writer and Northern Editor of The Sunday World, Jim McDowell, remembers the wireless in the butcher's shop of his Da, Big Sausage McDowell.
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Living Air - 29/10/2010
The series of radio memories concludes with Radio Ulster's first Dublin reporter back in 1975, now a best-selling novelist based in the United States, Frank Delaney.
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