Northern Ireland - Where Next?
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BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Could Northern Ireland soon face a huge decision - whether to leave the UK? Andrea Catherwood returns to where she grew up to discover why the biggest question of all is looming beyond Brexit. Demography may soon leave Catholics as the largest population group. And Brexit debate over new border controls in Ireland has challenged the uneasy compromise of the Good Friday Agreement. So how could a vote on creating a united Ireland come about? How would different traditions and generations decide what to do? And away from political debate, how do the people of Northern Ireland feel about the prospect of such a sensitive and fundamental choice? Producer: Chris Bowlby Editor: Hugh Levinson
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| 0:41.0 | This is Analysis from BBC Radio 4. Northern Ireland is much in the news |
| 0:46.5 | over the Brexit negotiations, but there may be an even bigger story brewing, a |
| 0:51.0 | possible vote on a United Ireland as Andrea Catharwood's been discovering. Visit Belfast today and you'll find a friendly vibrant city. |
| 1:05.0 | On a Tuesday night in October we had a choice of comedy gigs, opera, theatre and |
| 1:11.0 | at the Europa once famed as the most bombed hotel in the world, Van Morrison is staging a concert. |
| 1:17.0 | It feels light years away from the Belfast I grew up in during troubles. I went by theirs, we buy others. |
| 1:24.0 | Thats the way has been for centuries. |
| 1:26.0 | It's not Basel that should work for us to see's father. |
| 1:29.0 | He doesn't give a toss of my tradition. |
| 1:32.0 | I went along to Threes a Shride at the Modern Waterfront Hall, a play about rival |
| 1:37.0 | Catholic and Protestant undertakers that mercilessly pokes black-humored fun at the old traditions. |
| 1:43.0 | My far, he once said he said, |
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