Audio interview with Mike Nesbit, leader of the UUP, and Edwin Poots, Northern Ireland Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, by Stephen Nolan for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 24 April 2013. On 18 April planning permission was granted for the redevelopment of part of the former Maze/Long Kesh prison site into a peace building and conflict resolution centre. Nesbitt and Poots discuss unionist attitudes to the plans for the new centre with particular reference to the legacy of Bobby Sands and the 1981 hunger strikers. The Nolan Show is a daily current affairs programme on BBC Radio Ulster.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 24 April 2013
Name of First Interviewee: Mike Nesbitt
Name of Second Interviewee: Edwin Poots
Role at time of Interview: Mike Nesbitt (leader of the UUP), Edwin Poots (Northern Ireland Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety)
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: 1981-2013
Key Individuals: Mike Nesbitt, Edwin Poots, Bobby Sands
Key Words: Maze prison, Long Kesh prison, UUP, DUP, tourism, hunger strike, reconciliation, power-sharing, Sinn Fein, IRA