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Interview with Alex Kane and Seamus Close by Stephen Nolan for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 25 October 2013

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Audio interview with Alex Kane, political commentator, and Seamus Close, former deputy leader of the Alliance Party, by Stephen Nolan for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 25 October 2013. Six days earlier Gerry Kelly had launched his new book ‘The Escape’, an account of the Maze/Long Kesh prison escape of 25 September 1983. The publication was also released close to the twentieth anniversary of the Shankill bombing. Kelly had been criticised within some circles for his participation in a public commemoration for the Shankill bomber Thomas Begley. Earlier that day a Stephen Nolan interview with Gerry Kelly was broadcast. Kane and Close react to the interview and Kelly’s book. The Nolan Show is a daily current affairs programme on BBC Radio Ulster.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 25 October 2013

Name of First Interviewee: Alex Kane

Name of Second Interviewee: Seamus Close

Role at time of Interview: Alex Kane (political commentator), Seamus Close (political commentator)

Interviewer: Stephen Nolan

Purpose: News

Media: Audio

Copyright: BBC © 2013

Link: Listen to the interview

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show

Time Period covered: 1983-2013

Key Individuals: Alex Kane, Seamus Close, Gerry Kelly, Thomas Begley, Sean Kelly

Key Words: Maze/Long Kesh prison escape, Sinn Fein, IRA, commemoration, Shankill bombing, partition, Truth Commission, hierarchy of victims

 

 

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