Hey, I'm Ramdandar Vittah.

I'm Ramdine Arablui.

And this week on Thru Line, we're bringing you something a little bit different.

We really liked the show today, explained, and recently they covered the history of Northern

Ireland.

Brexit has brought Northern Ireland and its troubled past back into the news.

And we were right in the middle of trying to figure out how to tell that very complicated

and contested history when we heard an episode of today explained hosted by Sean Rameswaram

that did just that.

So we decided to call up the person who made it.

My name is Noam Hassanfeld and I'm a reporter, producer at Today Explained.

Okay, so Noam, you decided to tackle the history of the troubles and Ireland more generally,

which as I think most people know, it's packed with a lot of competing narratives, a lot

of emotion.

So how did you even begin to approach telling this kind of story?

Now is the biggest hurdle, I think, just because there are so many different ways to

tell this story from so many different perspectives.

I think people often look at this story and they say, okay, there's the Catholic perspective

and there's the Protestant perspective, but there's not even just two perspectives.

There's the British government perspective.

There's the perspective of the Republic of Ireland.

What I decided to do was present the conflict part around Brexit and in dealing with the

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