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Bloody Sunday Remembered
Thanks to CTVC for supporting this series remembering Bloody Sunday and its legacy of violence and chaos. Here is The Tablet article - Dark Shadows of the Past - based on these interviews.
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Bishop Edward Daly
Edward Daly is the priest waving the white hanky in the iconic photo of Bloody Sunday represented in the mural above. The men are carrying Jackie Duddy - aged 17.
Kay Duddy
Kay Duddy with the handkerchief carried by Bishop Daly in the photo. She is the sister of Jackie Duddy, the young man they are carrying. He was an amateur boxer and had just started work in a shirt factory. He was 17.
John Kelly
John Kelly is the brother of Michael Kelly, the youngest of the 7 teenagers who died aged just 17. John chaired the Bloody Sunday Justice Group for 6 years and works at the Bloody Sunday museum.
Jeanette Warke
Jeanette Warke is a Protestant and well known figure in Londonderry working for peace and reconciliation. She and her husband set up the Cathedral Youth Group in The Fountain area of the city, the only Protestant area left on the west bank. The Youth Centre is pictured above.
Gerry O'Hara
Gerry was involved in street violence as a child growing up in the Creggan estate. He joined the IRA as a Junior member and went on the become the Commander of Operations for the Junior Wing of the IRA. He is now a Republican politician and Vice Chair of the Policing Board.
Anonymous
The person interviewed here (name withheld) was also a street activist as a child. He left Derry aged 16 for a year, when he returned life was very different.
Richard Moore
Richard Moore is a wonderfully impressive man. His uncle was shot dead on Bloody Sunday and 3 months later he was blinded by a rubber bullet fired by a British soldier. He holds no anger or resentment and has made friends with the soldier who shot him. He now runs a charity called Children In Crossfire.
Peter McDonald
Peter McDonald was an activist in the IRA, now he is a community worker.
Kathleen Tracey
Kathleen Tracey's brother Charlie was shot dead by Loyalists in Annie's Bar in 1972.
Virtue Dixon
Ruth Dixon pictured above was celebrating her 24th birthday in the Droppin Well pub in Ballykelly in 1982 when a bomb, planted by the INLA, killed 17 people. Her mother Virtue told me the story and how she came to forgive the bombers.
Alistair Simpson
Alistair Simpson was the Governor of the Apprentice Boys of Derry for 9 years during The Troubles. He gives a Protestant view of how Bloody Sunday affected his community and the importance of history. He lives in The Fountain area of the city, the only purely Protestant area left on the west bank.
The Boxing Vicar - 3 part mini series
GOLD award winner at both the Christian Broadcasting Awards and New York Radio Festival Awards 2011.
helped fund this project - many thanks.
Brian Branche is a priest in the Church of England, and in his younger days a champion amateur boxer. He found the skills he learned in the boxing ring helped him deal with some difficult and often dangerous situations in the challenging parishes he worked in. One film is on courage, one on sussing people out and one on respect. Boxing and ministry? There is a connection...
The music is by Annette Dunn
Here are the audio only versions:
Boxing Vicar - Courage Boxing Vicar Courage
Boxing Vicar - Respect Boxing Vicar Respect
Boxing Vicar - Sussing out Boxing Vicar - Sussing Out
Courage film:
Respect film:
Sussing Out film:
Thank you to for funding the making of these programmes
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The Pope at Westminster Hall Sept 17th 2010
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Gavin podcast - Why Go to Mass? 8 minutes
Gavin D'Costa is Professor of Catholic theology at Bristol University. Here is is personal reflection on why he continues to go to church each week despite admitting that "some of the most boring moments of my life have been spent in church!" Warm, thought-provoking and personal.
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Nature Boy 5 minutes
Michael is a psychology teacher at Xavier College in Manchester. He was abandoned in hospital when he was born and bought up in an orphanage and foster home. Many who go through this experience find it hard to cope as adults. Only 1% make it to higher education. Michael's thought-provoking and personal story tells about the importance of nature in his life and the role it played in keeping him centred.
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Just Around The Corner - 29 mins
Winner Jeruslalem Awards 2010 i - Best Internet programme and Shortlisted Best "Perspectives" (documentary).
The judges described the programme as "Sensitive, intelligent and made with love"
Bronze Award - New York Radio Festival 2010, Social Documentary section
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In 2007 17 month old Peter Connolley died after months of horrendous and sustained abuse at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger. I was deeply moved and distressed by this case. If I found it so upsetting what must it be like to live just around the corner from where Peter lived? These are the voices of Mandy, a single mother, her daughter T'Shan who is 16 and her son Junior who is 12, they live literally down the road. Helen is from the Bristol area - she lives next door to a family who are often investigated for the treatment of their children and she voices her concern and her frustration. Miles Chambers is a poet who visits his brother who lives near where Peter died and who wrote a beautiful and moving poem called "I Had a Dream the Other Night". The music is composed by David Yapp and Richard Jeffrey Grey.
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A Christmas Robin - 6 minutes
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A reflection on robins at Christmas with naturalist Chris Sperring and music by Annette Dunn on a piano that once accompaied Ella Fitzgerald in Hong Kong.
Silver at Christian Broadcasting Council Awards 2010
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City of Angels - Faith in The Slums of Sao Paulo
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Pat Clarke is a Holy Ghost Father who has worked with the children in the slums of Sau Paulo in Brazil for 33 years. He has built, with the people, an arts centre, a creche, a pastoral centre and now a countryside retreat called The City of Angels. His story is moving and inspirational.
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Water and Faith - A Conversation With Catholic Earthcare Australia
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The Alliance of Religions and Conservation recently held a conference on faith and water in Salisbury. I interviewed many of the people there and here are the podcasts.
This first one is a longer interview with Catholic Earthcare Australia and their thoughts on the importance of water in such a drought ridden and hot country - and their fascinating ideas about links with S Africa.
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Arc Water Conference Part 1 - Faith Leaders Talk About Water
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Leaders from many different faiths tell us why water is important to them.
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Arc Water Conference Part 2 - Secular Groups Talk About Faith and Water
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The World Bank, the UN, various entrepreneurs talk about how they could form partnerships with the faiths of the world to get clean water to everyone, everywhere.
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Faith in Farming
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Victor Barry is in his 70s, a devout Catholic and has been a farmer all his life.
He is driven by a deep belief that we are called to protect nature, not to harm it and so he is passionate advocate of organic farming and low carbon living.
Listen to my conversation with him on his farm in Cornwall and hear about some of his ideas, including teaching ponies to plough land around cities.
Here is my Faith on the Farm article that was published in The Tablet on Sept 5th 2009
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The Prisoner and The Budgerigar
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Click Here for more information It also won a World Gold Medal at the New York Radio Festival Awards 2009
A moving interplay between one man's story of prison and reflections from a prison chaplain. Les went to prison for 6 years and during
that time he looked after a budgie, raising it from a tiny chick. It was this experience that helped him turn his life around.
The Sony judges described the programme as:
"A beautifully and subtly crafted programme which used the simplest materials to tell a compelling story and deliver profound emotional impact. It was perfectly adapted to the medium, breaking genre boundaries to deliver its message to the target audience with perfect pitch"
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Bereavement - A Reflection
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Winner of Jerusalem Award 2008 Best Internet Programme 2008 and Christian Broadcasting Council Gold Award (category P)
Merit Award: Sandford St Martin Trust Radio Awards 2009.
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Receiving award with Peter Hobbs and Bishop Nick Baines
This is a beautiful, moving and spiritual reflection on Peter's experience of bereavement, it is no surprise it has gained so much acclaim.
Peter's wife Caroline died in October 2004 having been diagnosed with breast cancer two years previously.
Peter's podcast reflects upon his journey from that time to the present.
The judge's comments:
Excellent piece - personal, moving and useful to others. Very honest and compelling. Fittingly simple, well written and nicely produced.
Peter:When Mary asked me to do the podcast on bereavement I said yes without really knowing why.
I'd love to say that my "yes" was motivated by a desire to help others but I suspect the truth is
that I simply looked on it as an opportunity to tell Caroline?s and my story one more time.
I was surprised by my reaction to the clip they played during the presentation at the award ceremony.
I have listened to it on two or three occasions with friends in the past with little emotion,
but this time it really choked me up. Of course the clip brought back hard memories, but my overwhelming thought was
what a privilege to have my thoughts on so personal a matter validated in this way!
So many others have suffered a tragedy similar to my own without any such affirmation.
My reaction makes me wonder whether the greatest gift we can give a bereaved person is simply to listen to their story no matter
how often they want to tell it. That is what Mary did for me by inviting me to record my experiences and I'm so grateful for it.
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Journey - Sound of Many Waters Podcast
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Winner Silver Award 2008 best internet production at the Christian Broadcasting Council
The story of Sound of Many Waters. It is presented by BBC West?s popular presenter Trevor Fry. This podcast covers the build-up to the launch of Sound of Many Waters - Clifton Cathedral's year-long exploration of our need to care for our environment.
The Judges comments: Another good piece from the Clifton Diocese - presented and packaged well with good quality audio. Excellent wide range of interesting voices - lay people and clergy. Good to hear the Catholic Church challenged on something like the environment and for the criticism to be positively received.
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Clifton Cathedral Podcast
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Clifton Cathedral - photo Gloskeith on Flikr
Winner - Jerusalem Awards 2007- best New Media programme
This programme is about the community at Clifton Cathedral.
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