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THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS TELEVISION & RADIO / BBC WEEKS 1&2

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SUNDAY 1 JANUARY

Playing For A Living  NEW BBC Radio Ulster

WEDNESDAY 4 JANUARY

Delete, Delete, Delete  NEW BBC One Northern Ireland

SUNDAY 8 JANUARY

Stories in Sound  NEW BBC Radio Ulster

Music Night At Brownlow  NEW BBC Two Northern Ireland

MONDAY 9 JANUARY

Getaways  NEW BBC One Northern Ireland

TUESDAY 10 JANUARY

Saved: At The Heart Of The Health Service  NEW BBC One Northern Ireland

Places of interest – , Londonderry, Craigavon, Antrim and Dundonald (Saved); Ballymoney, Armagh, Templepatrick, Londonderry (Music Night At Brownlow); County Fermanagh (Getaways) EDITORIAL 2017 ______

SUNDAY 1 JANUARY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEKS 1&2 ______

Playing For A Living  NEW Begins Sunday 1 January BBC Radio Ulster, 6.30pm

Musician and broadcaster Linley Hamilton talks to Northern Irish session musicians about life on the road and in the studio in a new four-part series of Playing For A Living.

Beginning on Sunday 1 January on BBC Radio Ulster at 6.30pm, Linley opens a window into the creative process, talking to some of our finest musicians who feature on many popular records and sound tracks.

Interviewees include Rod McVey, one of our most versatile musicians who has collaborated with the Corrs, Frances Black, Liam O’Flynn, Arty McGlynn and Shaun Davey, among many others

Drummer Darren Beckett is the first jazz musician from Northern Ireland to reach world status. His credits include recordings and performances with Madeline Peyroux, Brandon Flowers (of The Killers fame) and Emile Simon.

Mary Scully from Omagh has played principal bass with most chamber orchestras in London, including the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and has Performed on the soundtracks for several James Bond films, the Batman trilogy, Downtown Abbey and many more.

In the first programme on Sunday 1 January, Linley talks to Liam Bradley, the drummer who has played with Van Morrison, Moving Hearts, The Blue Nile and Ronan Keating.

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WEDNESDAY 4 JANUARY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEKS 1&2 ______

Delete, Delete, Delete  NEW Returns on Wednesday 4 January BBC One Northern Ireland, 10.40pm

Patrick Kielty returns home to host a new series of Delete, Delete, Delete.

The studio comedy chat show which clicks through his guests’ online activities begins on Wednesday 4 January on BBC One Northern Ireland at 10.40pm.

The new six-part series sees Patrick back in the BBC’s Blackstaff studios in Belfast interviewing celebrity guests about the contents of their internet history – weird websites, most watched virals, odd blogs and questions asked of their favourite search engine.

Among those celebrities facing Patrick on the sofa are Gareth Malone, Angela Scanlon, George Lamb, Dennis Taylor, Holly Walsh and Vogue Williams.

Patrick Kielty said: “It’s always great to get home and to record in the studio where my TV career began all those years ago has been such good craic. We had some brilliant guests in series one and this series is even better, and I can’t thank them enough for letting me have a root through their online lives.” The format was co-created by Ali Crockett, David Scott and Roughcut Television, the production company behind the BBC Three sitcoms People Just Do Nothing and Cuckoo.

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SUNDAY 8 JANUARY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEKS 1&2 ______

Stories in Sound  NEW Begins on Sunday 8 January BBC Radio Ulster, 12.30pm bbc.co.uk/radioulster

BBC Radio Ulster’s award winning Stories in Sound documentary series returns with a new season of programmes on Sunday 8 January at 12.30pm.

The new series, which runs until the end of March, showcases documentaries across a variety of subjects and themes.

For example, In ‘Ian Sansom And The Little People’, writer Ian Sansom goes in search of leprechauns, sprites, imps and elves – and their meaning - ‘Songs For The Dead’ sees broadcaster Marie-Louise Muir unpick the mystery of the traditional but vanishing practice of keening for the dead; and in ‘Exonerated’ presenter John Toal meets two former death-row inmates at the retreat they have set up for victims of wrongful conviction.

The series begins with another chance to hear ‘Lisdoonvarna: Ireland's Love Capital’ as BBC NI producer Alison Finch embarks on a search for love along with thousands other hopefuls at the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival in County Clare.

Stories in Sound is also available on the BBC Radio iPlayer at www.bbc.co.uk/radio and follow the links to BBC Radio Ulster.

The programmes will also available as podcasts at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041jvr9

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SUNDAY 9 JANUARY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEKS 1&2 ______

Music Night At Brownlow  NEW Begins on Sunday 8 January BBC Two Northern Ireland, 10pm

A new three-part series on BBC Two Northern Ireland captures the variety and scope of the music that is Ulster-Scots.

Filmed at Brownlow House in Lurgan, Music Night At Brownlow introduces new presenters Nicola Clyde from Ballymoney and Eilidh Patterson from Londonderry.

Beginning on Sunday 8 January at 10pm, the first programme features performances from Grahame Harris from Templepatrick on lowland pipes, Cup O'Joe Bluegrass Band, two brothers and a sister from Armagh; Kellswater Flute Band with Rachel Lutton on violin; and Zara Montgomery from Donegal.

The programme also carries two features on the now disbanded Killycoogan Accordion Band. Emma, Valerie and William Hill are all past members and they have come back together for the show. The Killycoogan band was regarded as the best Accordion Band in Northern Ireland at the time and is still regarded as one of the all-time best bands.

Also featured throughout the series will be Sontas; Sean Donnelly from Londonderry; Brunswick Accordion Band from Annalong; Mhairi Marwick (Scotland) on Fiddle; all female five-piece Bluegrass band Wookalily; Churchill Flutes; Andy McPherson and Ross Hume on lowland pipes; The Battlefield Band from Scotland; Ballynahinch’s Ballylone Flute Band; Pride of Ballinran Drum Corps from Kilkeel and the Scott Wood Band from Scotland.

Music At Brownlow has been made by Barking Films production in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Screen Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund.

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MONDAY 9 JANUARY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEKS 1&2 ______

Getaways  NEW Returns on Monday 9 January BBC One Northern Ireland, 7.30pm

Joe Lindsay and new presenter Mairead Ronan are Las Vegas bound as they kick off a new six-part series of Getaways on BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday 9 January at 7.30pm.

They’re on a mission to find out if there’s more to the city than just gambling.

Mairead takes a romantic gondola ride along a Venetian canal – in a hotel. Joe takes to the skies on a helicopter ride over the stunning Grand Canyon, they marvel at the neon museum, fine dine at the Bellagio, and a construction site lends itself to an unusual and high octane activity.

Also in the first programme, Mairead and her son Dara take a self-catering break in County Fermanagh.

During the rest of the series Joe and Mairead travel to Iceland, take a road trip around the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal; head for a Mediterranean beach break in Cyprus; explore Sligo, Cong in County Mayo and Wicklow.

They also visit the Tyrol region of Austria; take in the sights of Los Angeles and Joe and Vogue Williams travel to the Algarve in Portugal

Getaways is made for BBC Northern Ireland by Waddell Media.

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TUESDAY 10 JANUARY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEKS 1&2 ______

Saved: At The Heart Of The Health Service  NEW Tuesday 10 January BBC One Northern Ireland, 10.40pm

A new observational documentary which gets under the skin of the health service in Northern Ireland begins on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday 10 January at 10.40pm.

The four-part series, filmed over the period of a year, shows the hard work and dedication of the large team of staff across a number of health service facilities in Northern Ireland.

Saved: At The Heart Of The Health Service looks at the different roles in the NHS from the domestics, porters and chaplins to the nurses, surgeons and rehabilitation staff. It goes inside the clinics and hospitals where lives are saved on a daily basis including the main Belfast sites as well as Antrim, Craigavon, Dundonald and Altnagelvin Hospitals. It hears from some of the patients who pass through the inpatient and outpatient services and those staff who dedicate their lives to helping them.

The series follows a range of incredible journeys including a story of brotherly love as Johnny becomes a live donor for his brother William who is suffering from renal failure as it follows the two men through consultant meetings, surgery and recovery. Later the programme captures the lifesaving open brain surgery performed on a man with a brain Tumour. Raymond’s operation is carried out by neurosurgeon Tom Flannery. The programme reveals why the 55-year-old patient needs to be awake throughout surgery and the role a speech therapist plays in the success of the procedure.

The series also hears from a domestic cleaner at Altnagelvin who finds himself cleaning the theatre where his father has just received lifesaving cardiac surgery and a hospital cook tells how her team prepare 1800 individual meals per day for inpatients.

Saved: At The Heart Of The Health Service is made by Third Street Studios for BBC Northern Ireland. It begins on BBC One Northern Ireland at 10.40pm on Tuesday 10 January.

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