Radio News from Black 47

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

History, Interviews, War Of Independence, Ireland, Norman Invasion, Vikings, Great Famine, Great Hunger, Irish History

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Imagine radio had existed during the Great Famine. What would it sound like if you could go to an archive and listen to news reports from 1847?

To mark the 150th Anniversary of the Great Hunger in 1997, BBC Merseyside created news reports as if their journalists were reporting live from 1847. With the permission of BBC Merseyside I am delighted to share some of these reports with you in this special episode. Given each report is based on actual events from Liverpool in 1847, this is history like you have never heard it before.

Thanks to Pauline McAdam for talking to me about the making of the reports, Mick Ord for sharing them with me and BBC Merseyside for permission to republish them.

Sound by Jason Looney

Apologies for the delay in getting this show out - I got Covid-19 :(

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0:00.0	Hey folks, before you dive in just a quick heads up about the Warford launch of my new book
0:04.6	Alita Legacy, A History of Ireland in 18 Murders.
0:07.6	It takes place in the book center on Red Square in Warford at 6.30pm on Friday, September
0:13.6	29th.
0:14.6	The book center is one of my favorite bookshops.
0:17.1	It's built into an art deco cinema from the 1930s, it alone is reason enough to come
0:21.5	to the launch.
0:22.5	But hopefully I'll see you there on Friday the 29th at 6.30pm for the launch of Alita
0:27.8	Legacy, A History of Ireland in 18 Murders.
0:39.2	Imagine radio news existed during the Great Famine.
0:43.8	What would it sound like if you could go into an archive or a museum and listen to news
0:49.3	bulletins recorded in 1847?
0:53.4	Well this might give you some sense.
0:57.0	BBC Radio, Mercyside News, on April 19th, 1847, I'm Adrian Widfield, Liverpool's Magistrate
1:04.0	Edward Rushden has today admitted...
1:06.4	In today's episode I'm delighted to share with you a series of incredible recordings created
1:12.0	by BBC Mercyside in 1997 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Great Hunger.
1:20.9	Working with historians they produced a series of news bulletins reporting the history
1:26.4	as if their journalists were alive on the scene in Liverpool as Irish famine emigrants
1:32.6	arrived in the city.
1:34.8	Now these are really incredible historical resources but I want to explain a little bit
1:39.2	about how I came across them.
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