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THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS TELEVISION & RADIO / BBC WEEK 22

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SATURDAY 30 MAY & SUNDAY 31 MAY

The Irish Open BBC One Northern Ireland & BBC Radio Ulster

SUNDAY 31 MAY

The Foodie BBC Radio Ulster Folk Aduaidh  NEW BBC Two Northern Ireland

MONDAY 1 JUNE

Greatest Gardens  NEW BBC One Northern Ireland

FRIDAY JUNE 5

BBC Music Day  NEW BBC Two Northern Ireland & BBC Radio Ulster

Places of interest: Newcastle, (The Irish Open); Carrowdore, Hillsborough, Antrim (Greatest Gardens); Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh (The Foodie); Moortown, County Tyrone, Lurgan; Londonderry; and Bangor (BBC Music Day EDITORIAL 2015 / BBC WEEK 22 ______SATURDAY 23 MAY & TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 22 SUNDAY 24 MAY ______

The Irish Open

Saturday 30 May The John Toal Show, BBC Radio Ulster, 11am A Round With Anne Marie, BBC Radio Ulster, 1.05pm. Summer Club, BBC Radio Ulster, 3pm The Irish Open - Highlights, BBC One Northern Ireland, 10.50pm

Sunday 31 May Irish Open Special, BBC Radio Ulster, 6pm The Irish Open - Highlights, BBC One Northern Ireland, 10.30pm

As the Irish Open returns to Northern Ireland, BBC NI will be there to bring golf fans coverage of this event across TV, radio and online.

Each night during the tournament, Stephen Watson will present a 60 minute highlights programme after the BBC News At Ten on BBC One NI which will be packed full of that day’s action from the Royal County Down Course as local Major Champions Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke are joined by a star studded field for the competition.

Stephen Watson says: “I have been very fortunate to cover many of golf’s major tournaments around the world, but to be fronting BBC Northern Ireland’s coverage of such a large event right on our doorstep is something extremely exciting. Royal Portrush in 2012 captured a very special moment in Northern Ireland's sporting history and I expect Royal County Down this May to be another unique experience, because of the world class field Rory McIlroy has helped attract to play the famous County Down links.

“It's fantastic that we can show you all the action from the Irish Open on BBC One NI in four hour-long highlights shows, plus bring you a week of live coverage from Newcastle on BBC Newsline.”

BBC Radio Ulster will have coverage of the build up to the event from Wednesday 27 May at 6.30pm as Joel Taggart presents a preview programme ahead of what promises to be a very special event. Joel will also be live from Newcastle throughout the four day competition with an Irish Open Special at 6.30pm on Thursday 28 May and Friday 29 May and live with Michael McNamee on Saturday 30 May for a special Summer Club from 3pm, where they will be hearing from a whole host of celebrities and big names from the golfing world.

Joel will also be there on the final day as we hear who will be lifting the trophy at this prestigious competition on BBC Radio Ulster from 6pm.Throughout the week Joel will be joined by golf coach Johnny Foster and will be hearing from all the players who have been making the headlines throughout the tournament.

On Saturday 30 May, BBC Radio Ulster will also have a special outside broadcast from Newcastle with John Toal from 11am and later in the afternoon; listeners will have another chance to hear A Round With Anne Marie from 1.05pm. Whilst the great and the good of the golfing world are competing in Newcastle for the Irish Open Golf Championship, Anne Marie McAleese will join some special guests, including snooker legend Dennis Taylor and singing star Rose-Marie, for a round of golf at Belvoir Park Golf Club. The special guests will share their stories about golf and life in general as they try to stay out of the bunkers and on the fairway.

Throughout the tournament fans can keep updated with all the action at bbc.co.uk/sportni BBC NI at The Irish Open at a glance.

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SUNDAY 24 MAY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 22 ______

The Foodie 4/6 Continues on Sunday 31 May BBC Radio Ulster, 12.30pm bbc.co.uk/radioulster

Keen cook and self-professed enthusiastic eater Kim Lenaghan continues to travel the length and breadth of Northern Ireland meeting people with a passion for food, on Sunday 30 May on BBC Radio Ulster at 12.30pm.

The Foodie follows Kim as she meets up with dedicated artisan producers and chefs creating culinary magic. The series considers how new trends in food production and an increasing interest in how we eat are influencing every aspect of the place where we live - putting pride back on our plates, enhancing the economy and making Northern Ireland a top destination for committed foodies from around the globe.

In the fourth programme Kim is on the road again and heading to the north-west to sample the culinary delights of Derry. From cutting edge street food in the Pyke and Pommes truck on the banks of the Foyle to fine dining with Ian Orr at Brown’s restaurant, she discovers this is a city of contrasting tastes, all of them good. To wash it down there is a glass of Poker Tree craft beer brewed in County Tyrone and a final flourish in Fermanagh taking afternoon tea with chef Noel McMeel in the picturesque surroundings of the Five Star Lough Erne Resort.

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Folk Aduaidh  NEW Starting on Sunday 31 May BBC Two Northern Ireland, 10.30pm

Long before Bob Dylan there was folk music in Ulster. From the Blue Stack Mountains of Donegal to the busy streets of Belfast City; folk music pulses through the landscape and the people of this place. Folk Aduaidh is a new three-part series that examines the untold history of folk music in Ulster alongside the social, political and cultural backdrop of the time.

The local folk music scene is one of extraordinary richness and diversity stemming from thousands of years of inward and outward migration. This series tells the journey of folk music in Northern Ireland through interviews with leading musicians and experts, world class musical performances and rarely seen archive footage. The series features musicians Andy Irvine, Cara Dillon, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Maighread and Tríona Ní Dhomnhaill, Tommy Sands, Colum Sands, Neil Martin, Barry Douglas to name a few.

The first programme in the three-part series charts from the 1600s up to the Folk Revival and into the 1960s. Through the looking glass of the Belfast Harp Festival of 1792, when the last of the Mohicans of the old Gaelic system gathered, we follow the great collectors who came in the wake of Edward Bunting in the early 20th Century. The ebb and flow of Ulster song and music carried by the voices of Paddy Tunney, Sarah Makem, Geordie Hanna and Sarah Anne O’Neill, as well as musical legends such as Sean McGuire, provided the foundations for a resurgence of folk music in Ulster in the 1960s.

The first programme also charts Co. Armagh singer Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers gaining fame in America and the focus moving to Ulster where the first steps of the Folk Club movement were being made in the 1960s. The programme on Sunday 31 May on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 10.30pm features previously unseen archival footage of Pete Seeger, a pioneer of the American folk revival, on his trip to Ireland, as well as interviews and exclusive performances with Andy Irvine, Len Graham, Joe Burke, Nigel and Diane Boullier, Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin, Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde, Lillis Ó Laoire, Stephanie Makem and Dónal O’Connor.

Folk Aduaidh is made by Sonas productions with funding from Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund.

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MONDAY 1 JUNE TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 22 ______

Greatest Gardens  NEW Starts on Monday 1 June BBC One Northern Ireland, 7.30pm

Who has the greatest private garden in Northern Ireland? Diarmuid Gavin and Helen Dillon are on the garden path to find out.

The pair team up to present the new series, Greatest Gardens, which begins on Monday 1 June, BBC One Northern Ireland at 7.30pm.

Wherever you are in Northern Ireland, you’re never more than a few streets away from a superb secret garden. These gardens, tucked out of sight from the public, will often have obsessive, proud owners keen to cultivate the biggest, the brightest and the best, all the while gathering peer recognition and horticultural awards.

Now these passionate purveyors of gardening greatness are going to be pitted against each other as Diarmuid Gavin and Helen Dillon track down the best-kept horticultural secrets in the country.

In each programme Diarmuid and Helen visit three very different secret hideaways around a particular part of Northern Ireland. They examine and appraise the gardens while the nervous owners wait inside for their verdict.

And there’ll be plenty of good natured banter and takeaway tips from our experts along the way, before they finally meet the gardener.

At the end of the programme, after seeing all three gardens, Diarmuid and Helen decide which of the three they have enjoyed the most, basing their choice on the classic gardening competition criteria of planting, design and good gardening practice.

In programme one Diarmuid and Helen are in counties Down and Antrim. They cast their expert eyes over a stunning compartmentalised paradise behind a Georgian terrace house in Hillsborough, a reclaimed quarry in Carrowdore and an ambitious river landscape in the shadow of a stunning modern house in rural Antrim. Which will Diarmuid and Helen like the best?

Diarmuid Gavin is a former Chelsea Flower Show winner and one of the and Ireland’s most respected garden designers and broadcasters. Helen Dillon is a distinguished gardening lecturer and writer. Her own garden in is renowned for being one of the best in Ireland.

The series has been produced for BBC Northern Ireland by Waddell Media.

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FRIDAY 5 JUNE TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 22 ______

BBC Music Day  NEW Friday 5 June BBC Two Northern Ireland/ BBC Radio Ulster/ BBC Radio Foyle/ BBC Radio 3/ Red Button

Sir James Galway, Andrea Begley, Villagers, The Priests, The Ulster Orchestra, Belfast Community Gospel Choir and more join the line up in Northern Ireland for BBC Music Day.

BBC Music Day on Friday 05 June is a nationwide celebration aiming to bring together generations and communities through their love of music.

In Northern Ireland, BBC Music Day is set to be a day of great music content across TV, Radio and online featuring live music events and performances involving both well-known musicians and local communities. This will include BBC Radio Ulster outside broadcasts across Northern Ireland and a special evening of music from the Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, broadcasting on BBC Two NI, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio 3.

Locally the day will get underway on BBC Radio Ulster/Foyle with Sean Coyle as he broadcasts live from Lurgan Town Hall at 10.30am with lots of musical performances and lively conversation. The Big Night (In The Morning) live event will be full of guests and an audience of fans as Sean recalls how people celebrated special occasions with friends, neighbours and family in the 60s.

Hugo Duncan will be joining in on the Music Day festivities as he heads to St Peter's Primary School, Moortown, Co Tyrone as they celebrate the school's centenary with an afternoon of live country music, cream buns and craic from 1.30pm on BBC Radio Ulster.

In the afternoon Gerry Kelly has moved out of his studio and down the road to the salubrious surroundings of the Ulster Hall where he will welcome artists including The Priests; winners of the BBC Radio Ulster School Choir Of The Year Competition Pond Park Primary and Grosvenor Grammar; Hermitage Green; The Logues; Celtic Soul; Conor White from Silences and Karl McGuckin for great music, lively conversation and an afternoon to remember. The programme will be broadcast live from 3pm on BBC Radio Ulster.

Later that evening The Arts Show will mark BBC Music Day with Michael Bradley presenting the programme from the Small Town America Records studio in Londonderry from 6.30pm.

Meanwhile, on BBC Radio 3 from 6.15pm, Sean Rafferty is live from the Crumlin Road Gaol with a special In Tune programme featuring internationally renowned flautist Sir James Galway, The Ulster Orchestra, Neil Martin and The Methodist College Choir.

From 9pm BBC Two NI and BBC Radio Ulster will simultaneously broadcast a celebration of music from Belfast’s Crumlin Road Gaol. Joining presenters Lynette Fay and Ralph McLean will be Sir James Galway who will be accompanied by pianist Michael McHale, Conor O’Brien from Villagers Belfast Community Gospel Choir, Releasing Rhythms and The Voice winner Andrea Begley. As the first televised concert from these unique surroundings it promises to be an event quite unlike any other in the Gaol's long history. The programme will also be available to watch across the UK behind the Red Button from 10pm.

Following the concert on BBC Radio Ulster at 10pm Jazz World With Linley Hamilton will feature Northern Ireland Young Musician Platform Award winner and jazz percussionist Ed Dunlop in session with his jazz trio for BBC Music Day.

To round off this inaugural BBC Music Day there will be another chance to see Snow Patrol: Live at Ward Park 2010 on BBC Two Northern Ireland from 11.05pm. The concert which, celebrates its five year anniversary on BBC Music Day, saw the band return to their hometown of Bangor to play one of the biggest ever live concerts staged in Northern Ireland. The programme relives the extraordinary night, with presenter Rigsy, as Snow Patrol rock the stage with worldwide hits including Run, Chasing Cars and Chocolate.

BBC Northern Ireland’s Head of Entertainment and Events, Mike Edgar said: “Music is a precious gift available to us all. In Northern Ireland we are blessed with an abundance of amazing talent that punches well above its weight! Music brings so many positives to our lives and indeed to our communities - bringing people together spiritually, emotionally and beyond. BBC Music Day gives us a great opportunity to celebrate and enjoy some music and I hope the eclectic programming we have lined up across television, radio, online on 05 June will be enjoyed by all taking part and all who watch and listen.”

Find out more about BBC Music Day and events taking place both in Northern Ireland and other parts of the UK at www.bbc.co.uk/musicday

BBC MUSIC

BBC Music is the Corporation’s strongest commitment to music in 30 years - comprising an ambitious wave of new programmes, innovative partnerships and ground-breaking music initiatives. This is designed to strengthen the BBC’s place as a world leader in music broadcasting and commissioning, and enhance the UK’s position as a global trailblazer in music creation and performance. Led by Director Bob Shennan, BBC Music officially launched in October 2014 with the extraordinary reworking of ‘God Only Knows’. The commitment has included taking music to primetime BBC One with The One Show Music Festival and launching the first ever star-studded BBC Music Awards which were broadcast on BBC One, Radio 1 and Radio 2 in December. ‘Ten Pieces’ has already engaged nearly half the primary schools in the UK with classical music, and will culminate in two Ten Pieces Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in July. The inaugural BBC Music Day on Friday 5th June will be a nationwide celebration of music, aiming to bring people together across generations and communities through their love of music. bbc.co.uk/music is now the established home for both BBC Music Playlister and music clips from BBC Radio & Television. An incredible range of visual music content is curated on the iPlayer. And the most talented new artists are given a platform via BBC Music's 17 emerging talent schemes - from BBC Young Musician to the BBC Young Folk Award and BBC Introducing.

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