Can I just say?

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.

It's such a wonderful listen.

So nice.

There are loads more like it on BBC sounds.

Different paces, different heights.

The roof is buckling.

Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.

It's right foot goes for goal.

And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.

The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.

And she's had to live with that.

So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

Sort of expecting that every week now.

Hello, on tonight's programme a compelling and promiscuous conversation between Paul Muldoon,

that most playful and serious of poets from Northern Ireland, and the historian of Ireland,

Roy Foster, which takes us from Ben Hur through Yates to a comparison between the actors of the

1916 Irish Uprising and the children of the 1960s.

But first, another writer for whom history is anything but a nightmare from which we're trying to awake,

the Scottish dramatist and scriptwriter Rona Monroe.

Her work takes in an adaptation of Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's novel

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