PI Week 10 March 3 - March 9 2012

St Patrick’s Day Concert Live From Frances Black who will be performing at a special St Patrick’s Day Concert at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on March 17 Programme Information New this week

St Patrick’s Day Concert Live From Belfast Page 3 Join BBC Radio Ulster and the Ulster Orchestra for Saint Patrick’s Day live from Belfast’s Waterfront Hall

Step out with BBC Radio Ulster’s Hugo Duncan Page 4 Hugo Duncan steps out and about with some springtime tea dances across

Music Nation Page 5 BBC Radio 3 heralds the arrival of the Olympic Games with a musical extravaganza live from Belfast’s Waterfront Hall

Primetime Page 6 A Year Of Greater Love

2 St Patrick’s Day Concert Live From Belfast Join BBC Radio Ulster and the Ulster Orchestra for Saint Patrick’s Day live from Belfast’s Waterfront Hall

St Patrick’s Day Concert, Saturday, March 17, The Waterfront Hall, Belfast and live on BBC Radio Ulster

Frances Black who will be performing at a special St Patrick’s Day Concert at Pianist Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin will be taking to the stage at Belfast’s Waterfront Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on March 17. The concert will also be live on BBC Hall for a special St Patrick’s Day Concert with the Ulster Orchestra which will Radio Ulster also be broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster Two of Ireland’s best-loved The Red Hot Chilli Pipers will also be Tickets will be allocated using a random musicians, pianist Mícheál Ó contributing to this musical extravaganza at draw. No more than four tickets per Súilleabháin and singer Frances Belfast’s Waterfront Hall. applicant/household address. Ticket Black, will be joining the Ulster applications can be made from February 21 Orchestra for a special St Patrick’s The concert will be conducted by until March 6, 2012 at 5pm inclusive. David Brophy and will be broadcast live to Day Concert broadcast for BBC audiences at home and around the world. To apply for tickets log on to: www.. Radio Ulster on Saturday, March The concert will begin at 8.00pm. co.uk/showsandtours 17.

3 Step out with BBC Radio Ulster’s Hugo Duncan Hugo Duncan steps out and about with some springtime tea dances across Northern Ireland

Hugo Duncan, BBC Radio Ulster, Mondays-Fridays, 1.30pm-3pm. 92–95FM & DAB digital radio, digital TV and online at bbc.co.uk/radioulster

BBC Radio Ulster’s Hugo Duncan steps out and about with some springtime tea dances across Northern Ireland BBC Radio Ulster’s Hugo Duncan On Friday, March 16, he will head to them, so getting out for four tea dances will Mahon’s Hotel, Irvinestown and on will be stepping out and about be extra special for us. We’ll have plenty of Friday, March 23 Peter Morgan’s cottage in guests joining us but I’m expecting plenty with some springtime tea dances Dromara, County Down is the venue for of craic, lots of dancing and the odd cream his third tea dance. The final dance comes across Northern Ireland. bun along the way and you never know live from the Armagh City Hotel on Friday, I might even take a wee turn around the March 30. Over the course of a month Hugo will be dance floor myself!” travelling the length of Northern Ireland As well as bringing plenty of special with his popular radio programme. guests on the road with him, Hugo will be Hugo Duncan, BBC Radio Ulster, Mondays- expecting toe-tapping tea dancers across Fridays, 1.30pm-3pm. 92–95FM & DAB Hugo will start his four special tea dance Northern Ireland to join in the fun. digital radio, digital TV and online at programmes with a live broadcast from bbc.co.uk/radioulster Bushtown House Hotel, Coleraine on Hugo says: “Our listeners know how much we love getting out and about and meeting Friday, March 9. 4 Music Nation BBC Radio 3 heralds the arrival of the Olympic Games with a musical extravaganza live from Belfast’s Waterfront Hall

Music Nation,BBC Radio 3 and RTE Lyric FM, Sunday, March 4, 1pm

Music Nation is an ambitious UK- wide programme of concerts, workshops and performances on March 3 and 4 2012. It marks the beginning of large-scale events to herald the arrival of the Olympic Games.

As part of this musical extravaganza the Ulster Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra will be performing together for the first time at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall at 1pm on Sunday, March 4.

The concert will include the world premiere of a new BBC Radio 3 commission by the award-winning Belfast- born composer, Brian Irvine. This ambitious new work for double orchestra and choir is entitled Praise Aloud The Trees. Award-winning Belfast composer Brian Irvine, whose work commissioned by BBC Radio 3 gets its world premiere at a musical extravaganza at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on Sunday, March 4 The text is from Sweeney Astray, a Tickets for this event have now been and down the country. Music translation by Seamus Heaney of Buile allocated. Nation is a partnership with the BBC, Arts Suibhne, a 12th-century Irish cycle about Council England, the Association of British a 7th-century Ulster petty king, “mad Music Nation is a nationwide weekend of Orchestras (ABO), British Association of Sweeny” who lost his reason at the Battle live music events held across the UK on Concert Halls (BACH), Orchestras Live, of Mag Rath or Moira in 637. March 3 & 4 2012. Devised and led by the Making Music, Conservatoires UK and BBC, Music Nation is the first nationwide Locog to celebrate the richness, diversity Dutch conductor, Jurjen Hempel, will be countdown event to the London 2012 and excellence of Britain’s musical life. making a welcome return to Belfast to Festival. conduct this very special afternoon BBC Radio 3, Music Nation’s principal of music making, which will also include Built around classical and orchestral media partner, is dedicating its Korngold’s Robin Hood Suite, music, but also featuring jazz, folk and weekend programming to Music Nation with Rimsky Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, world music, Music Nation will see additional programming across the Leonard Bernstein’s On the Waterfront. thousands of musicians and audiences weekend on Radio 1, 1xtra, BBC Scotland, enjoy world-class performances, BBC Wales, BBC Northern Ireland and The concert will be broadcast live on BBC community projects and workshops BBC local radio. For full details on all the Radio 3 and RTÉ Lyric FM. in venues and public places up events visit bbc.co.uk/musicnation

5 Primetime A Year of Greater Love

Primetime - A Year Of Greater Love, BBC Two Northern Ireland, Sunday, March 4, 9pm

Lisa Dwyer Hogg (Emma), Owen McDonnell (Neil) and young Amy Lee Farmer (Alice) star in Primetime – A Year Of Greater Love on BBC Two Northern Ireland on Sunday, March 4 at 9pm BBC Northern Ireland and er) has a degenerative kidney disease and He was inspired to start writing to get back Northern Ireland Screen bring needs a donor. She decides against her sis- to what motivated him in the first place - viewers Primetime, the second ter’s wishes to dredge up the family past good stories. of two original dramas penned by and track down her adopted brother. new local writers. Patrick said: “In writing A Year of Greater Patrick FitzSymons is the writer behind Love I hoped to examine the impact of ab- Primetime – A Year of Greater Love was the script A Year Of Greater Love and lives normal circumstances on normal family life, filmed on location in Northern Ireland, near Dunseverick on the North Coast. to create a situation in which those senses by Mammoth Screen, and is on BBC Two of duty and obligation felt between those Northern Ireland on Sunday, March 4 at He already has an extensive career as an related by blood are stretched to the limit. 9pm actor for TV, radio and film including BBC Where does our duty to family end and our

In the drama, Emma (Lisa Dwyer Hogg) Northern Ireland dramas Brendan Smyth: duty to our fellow human beings begin?” discovers her daughter Alice (Amy Farm- Betrayal Of Trust and Scapegoat. 6