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PI Week 11 March 12 - March 18, 2011 BBC Radio Ulster Celebrates St Patrick’s Day Programme Information New this week BBC Radio Ulster celebrates St Patrick’s Day with Horslips and the Ulster Orchestra Page 3 BBC Radio Ulster broadcasts live St Patrick’s Day concert with Horslips and the Ulster Orchestra from the Waterfront Hall BBC NI gears up for NW200 2011 Page 5 BBC Sport NI is gearing up for coverage of this year’s North West 200 International road races Jimmy Ellis At 80 Page 7 Gerry Anderson talks to actor James Ellis on BBC Radio Ulster as he celebrates his 80th birthday Bob Geldof special on The Late Show With Stuart Bailie Page 9 Bob Geldof talks to Stuart Bailie about his eventful career and life Calling Readers, Everywhere! Page 10 BBC Northern Ireland launches a new Book Group for local readers. In the third programme of the BBC Radio Ulster series In The Footsteps, on Sunday, March 13 at 1.30pm, journalist Fionala Meredith learns more about the twentieth century writer Helen Waddell, who won world wide acclaim with her study of the Medieval world in the 1920s and 30s but whose legacy is now largely forgotten. She is pictured here at Kilmacrew House with Helen Waddell’s great great niece and current custodian of the Kilmacrew and Helen Waddell estate, Louise Anson. Hugo Duncan will be bringing his BBC Radio Ulster show live from Mahon’s Hotel in Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh for a special St Patrick’s Day programme from 1.30pm-3pm on Thursday, March 17, when there’ll be plenty of craic, spe- cial country music guests and probably a cream bun or two. 2 BBC Radio Ulster celebrates St Patrick’s Day with Horslips and the Ulster Orchestra BBC Radio Ulster broadcasts live St Patrick’s Day concert with Horslips and the Ulster Orchestra BBC Radio Ulster celebrates St Patrick’s Day, BBC Radio Ulster, Thursday, March 17 at 8pm. bbc.co.uk/radioulser Horslips will perform with the Ulster Orchestra for an exclusive BBC Radio Ulster concert at the Waterfront Hall on St Patrick’s night. Picture by Conor Horgan. BBC Radio Ulster listeners can On Thursday, March 17 at 8pm, the Ulster songs from their 1976 album The Book Of Orchestra will accompany Horslips as they Invasions: A Celtic Symphony and their celebrate St Patrick’s Day in style perform some of their best known songs, 1973 album The Tain. Both albums charted this year with an exclusive concert arranged and conducted by Brian Byrne. new territory in the Celtic rock genre, The concert will be broadcast live on BBC which was pioneered by Horslips in the by legendary Irish Celtic rock band Radio Ulster. 1970s. Horslips, performing for the first BBC Radio Ulster presenter John Toal will Acclaimed singer-songwriter Paul Casey, time with an orchestra. host the concert in which Horslips will play from Londonderry, will also perform at the 3 Singer-songwriter Paul Casey will perfom at BBC Radio Ulster’s St Patrick’s night concert at the Waterfront Hall concert with songs from his new album time the band has performed alongside an prospect of hearing the Ulster Orchestra Scrapbook and from his back catalogue of orchestra, adding a classical twist to their pick up on these - in songs like Sideways To albums, including Slow Water. classic repertoire of songs. The Sun, Setanta’s Theme and Trouble.” Horslips formed in 1970, going on to Flute and keyboard player Jim Lockhart Paul Casey, meanwhile, is looking forward become one of Ireland’s biggest bands says: “We always worked a variety of to sharing the same bill as Horslips. He says: with their fusion of rock music and tra- tonal colour into our music, what with “I’m delighted to be part of this! I grew up concertinas, fiddles, pipes and whatever with ‘The Tain’ album, can’t wait to hear ditional Irish music. They are regarded by blending with the electrics. them with the orchestra!” many as the founders of Celtic rock and have maintained a loyal fan base since they “Playing with all the possibilities of an All complimentary tickets to BBC Radio ‘retired’ more than 30 years ago in 1980. orchestra takes that to a whole other level. Ulster’s St Patrick’s Day concert in Belfast’s In recent years the band has reformed and I can’t wait to feel that textural richness, Waterfront Hall have now been allocated. performed both in Belfast’s Odyssey Arena and to hear the band and orchestra playing and Dublin’s 02 Arena. with and against each other. It’ll be a great The concert is presented by BBC Radio night.” Ulster and Belfast City Council and can be The band’s exclusive BBC Radio Ulster heard live on BBC Radio Ulster, Thursday, concert this St Patrick’s Day will be the first Horslips bass player Barry Devlin says: March 17, 8pm. “Most of the pieces on The Tain and The Book Of Invasions have strong internal 92–95FM & DAB digital radio, digital TV and themes, so I’m really excited about the online at bbc.co.uk/radioulster 4 BBC NI gears up for NW200 2011 BBC Sport NI is gearing up for our coverage of this year’s North West 200 International road races. At the launch of this year’s NW 200 the Superstock and Supersport races at BBC Northern Ireland are, from left, NW200 Technical Director Mervyn Whyte, rider Michael Dunlop, BBC Sport NI’s Stephen Watson, Shane Glynn, Editor BBC Sport NI and rider Simon Andrews BBC Sport NI is gearing up for 100,000 people witnessing the thrills of A new feature for this year is that the North our coverage of this year’s North road racing on the nine miles of public West online coverage will be provided via roads. the BBC Sport NI homepage, rather than West 200 International road via a dedicated and separate NW 200 site. races. 2011 is the second year of This year BBC Sport NI will continue to our five year contract which sees provide fans with enhanced coverage Shane Glynn, Editor BBC Sport NI said: throughout the week-long festival across “The dedicated North West 200 site the event broadcast across the BBC TV, radio and online. As well as the live worked very well, providing our audience BBC until 2014. and highlights action, there will be reports with fantastic added value content, as well and special features from behind-the-scenes as hosting the live practice and race day Celebrating its 82nd anniversary this year, including interviews and profiles of the action. This site will remain to host the vast the NW200 has attracted motorsport fans riders, the fans and the people who make it wealth of archive material we’ve gathered. from all over the world with upwards of one of the sport’s biggest attractions. But the special features, latest news and 5 all the live action will from this year be coming direct from our BBC Sport NI web page, which should make the North West coverage feel more an integrated part of our wider sport portfolio, rather than a separate event. On average during 2011, the BBC Sport Northern Ireland website attracted over 193,000 UK unique users per week. When we secured the rights to the North West 200, we pledged to provide fans with the most innovative, creative and in depth coverage of the races and the week leading up to them, and we aim to continue to build on the success of our coverage thus far.” Coverage of the NW 200 festival on TV will include a preview programme and two special highlights programmes presented by Stephen Watson and Phillip McAllen featuring all the action from the racing and behind the scenes features on the top teams and riders and coverage from 24 trackside cameras, aerial camera and on-bike cameras. will be available live via the red button hugely exciting television, radio and online BBC Radio Ulster’s Summer Club will service for digital viewers. coverage which reaches millions of people come live from the event on race day, with worldwide. Everyone involved in the coverage of all the races. There will also Technical Director Mervyn Whyte North West 200 would like to thank all the team at BBC for their hard work and be a Friday night preview programme on MBE said, “We‘ve had a fantastic professionalism.” Radio Ulster medium wave. partnership with BBC NI over many years and each year the whole production and BBC Sport Northern Ireland’s Ceefax Both practice sessions will be live online, presentation team add new and creative service will also provide the latest news and all the races on the Saturday will also dimensions to BBC’s range of NW200 and information during the NW 200 be available live online, while two of them programmes.The end result is high calibre and festival week. 6 Jimmy Ellis At 80 Gerry Anderson talks to actor James Ellis as he celebrates his 80th birthday Jimmy Ellis At 80, BBC Radio Ulster, Thursday, March 17 at 6.05pm. bbc.co.uk/radioulster Gerry Anderson talks to veteran actor James Ellis in BBC Radio Ulster’s Jimmy Ellis At 80 on Thursday, March 17 at 6.05pm. James Ellis is one of Northern In Jimmy Ellis At 80, on BBC Radio Ulster Theatre, where he soon became the Ireland’s most respected on Thursday, March 17 at 6.05pm, Gerry company’s leading man. After securing talks to Jimmy about how he paved the way starring roles in such plays as The actors, with a successful career for future generations of Northern Ireland Playboy of the Western World, James then across stage and screen that has actors by making a name for himself on went on to be appointed Director of spanned seven decades.