PI Week 13 March 26 - April 1, 2011 Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues Programme Information New this week Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues Page 3 BBC Northern Ireland pays tribute to legendary blues and rock musician Gary Moore with a one-off documentary looking at the life and career of the Belfast-born guitar hero. BBC Northern Ireland documentary wins RTS Programme Award Page 5 BBC Northern Ireland has won a prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Award for the documentary Breaking The Silence. BBC Radio Ulster’s Ralph McLean will host an outside broadcast from a special concert at the Flowerfield Arts Centre in Portstewart on Thursday, March 31 from 8pm-10pm. The programme will feature live music and chat from artists including Henry McCullough, Ben Glover, Anthony Toner, Eilidh Patterson, Clive Culbertson and Eilidh Bradley. 2 Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues BBC Northern Ireland pays tribute to blues rock musician Gary Moore Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues, BBC One Northern Ireland, Tuesday, March 29 at 10.35pm Legendary blues and rock musician Gary Moore BBC Northern Ireland is and talks to some of the people who knew Gary Moore grew up just off the paying tribute to legendary blues him throughout his illustrious career in Newtownards Road in east Belfast and music which spanned five decades. moved to Dublin at the age of 16 to make and rock musician Gary Moore, a name for himself on the rock scene there, with a one-off documentary Belfast-born Gary Moore died of a heart where he was mentored for a while by Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green. looking at the life and career of the attack while on holiday in the Costa Del Belfast-born guitar hero. Sol on February 6, 2011 aged just 58. He Before long he joined the band Skid Row was one of Northern Ireland’s best known with Brush Shiels and Noel Bridgeman and, and respected musicians and left behind Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues, on BBC for a while, Phil Lynott. He then joined One NI on Tuesday, March 29 at 10.35pm him a legacy of classic blues and rock tracks Lynott again in Thin Lizzy, first for a short features previously unseen BBC Northern through his time with bands Skid Row, Thin while in 1973, and again in 1977 during the Ireland interview footage with Gary Moore Lizzy and from his lauded solo career. band’s most successful period. 3 Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy He worked both with Thin Lizzy and as a age with Gary Moore, filmed in 2006. The Gary Moore tell his own story – from solo artist throughout the 1970s and early programme is narrated by Stuart Bailie. the early days in Belfast and Dublin to the 1980s, and produced 20 albums of his own international stage with Thin Lizzy and as a work. His solo work has also seen him Programme producer Tony Curry says: solo artist. collaborate with such music legends as Bob “Gary Moore was one of the most talented Dylan and BB King. guitarists of his generation. He never lost “And the genuine affection for him from the passion for playing he discovered when fellow musicians is reflected in the warmth Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues his dad bought him his first guitar as a 10 of the memories of those who knew him features new interviews with Gary Moore’s year old child. down the years.” Skid Row band mate Brush Shiels, his Thin Lizzy band mates Scott Gorham and “We interviewed him some years ago near Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues is on Brian Downey, his former road manager his home in Brighton for the So Hard To BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday, Frank Murray and music journalist Niall Beat music documentaries and he was March 29 at 10.35pm. Stokes. The programme also features rare, very open about his career and modest never-before-broadcast interview foot- about his amazing ability. Viewers will see 4 BBC Northern Ireland documentary wins RTS Programme Award BBC Northern Ireland has won a prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Award for the documentary Breaking The Silence. Breaking The Silence, an intimate documentary looking at the issue of suicide, won in the Nations and Regions Programme category at the award ceremony, which was hosted by Dara O’Briain at London’s Grosvenor House on Tuesday night (Tuesday, March 15). Director and producer Brendan Byrne from I would like to extend that gratitude to the Produced by Tern Television for BBC Tern TV says: “I’m incredibly honoured to contributors to this documentary who Northern Ireland, Breaking The Silence have been presented with this award for demonstrated great courage, conviction heard the heartbreaking testimonies of a programme which dealt with a difficult and kindness in sharing their painful stories parents who have lost their daughters and taboo subject. We didn’t attempt to with us.” to suicide and a wife who has lost her find answers to impossible questions with husband. In this moving programme, these this programme; we simply wanted to bear Peter Johnston, Director BBC Northern families shared their deeply personal witness to the powerful testimony of Ireland, said: “We are extremely proud stories in the hope that the stigma and mothers, wives and fathers as they told of of this achievement for what was a very taboo around suicide could be broken and the traumatic aftermath of suicide. I’d like powerful film exploring some very delicate that, ultimately, more deaths by suicide to thank the families who had such strength issues. Brendan Byrne demonstrated his could be prevented. and bravery to share their deeply personal expert skills as a filmmaker by bringing and harrowing stories with us. Without these upsetting personal testimonies to a The families, each from rural communities them there would be no film.” wider audience in a sensitive and honest in Co Armagh or Co Tyrone, bravely told manner and he is wholly deserving of this of their time with their loved ones in the Deirdre Devlin, Executive Producer of award.” hours before they died, the horror and the documentary, says: “Breaking The devastation they experienced when they Silence was a deeply moving and important Breaking The Silence was broadcast on discovered what had happened, and how documentary showing how suicide can BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday, they each continue in their struggle to affect anyone. We’re incredibly April 12, 2010. come to terms with losing a loved one to grateful to the Royal Television Society for suicide. recognising the programme in this way and 5 On BBC Radio Ulster This Week In a new series for BBC Radio Ulster, musician and Folk Club presenter Colum Sands dips into the rich wealth of traditional and contemporary folk music and song recorded by BBC Radio Ulster over recent years. In the first programme of the Radio Sessions series, on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday, March 27 at 4.30pm, Colum features a very special and poignant concert featuring the Clancy Brothers, Liam, Paddy and Bobby - recorded as they received the Fiddler’s Green Hall of Fame Award in Rostrevor in July 1994. Sadly all three have since passed away, leaving performances like this as their enduring legacy. In the fifth and final programme of BBC Radio Ulster’s In The Footsteps series, on Sunday, March 27 at 1.30pm, newspaper editor Jim McDowell investigates the life of Rinty Monaghan. The first Irishman to win the Flyweight Boxing World Championship title, Monaghan’s contribution to the world of boxing is legendary, but it was a life of ups and downs for the man who was as well known for singing in the ring as fighting in it. Jim is seen here with Barney Eastwood beside Rinty’s blue plaque at the King’s Hall. The In The Footsteps series has seen five personalities take a journey in the footsteps of a figure they’ve always been interested in but know little about. From comedian and writer Tim McGarry on Edward Carson to Lynda Bryan’s journey to better understand the philosophy of Francis Hutcheson, each week unveils a different era and a different contribution to history and culture. 6.