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Interview with Mike Nesbitt and Jim Allister by Stephen Nolan for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 12 November 2013

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Audio interview with Mike Nesbitt, leader of the UUP, and Jim Allister, leader of the TUV, by Stephen Nolan for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 12 November 2013. In the lead up to the anniversary of the Belfast City Council decision to restrict the number of days the Union flag was flown above City Hall, Nesbitt and other unionists suggested that a repeat of the flag protests would unhelpful to any future solution. In this interview Nesbitt and Allister debate the issue of unionist public protest. The Nolan Show is a daily current affairs programme on BBC Radio Ulster

Date of Release/Broadcast: 12 November 2013

Name of First Interviewee: Mike Nesbitt

Name of Second Interviewee: Jim Allister

Role at time of Interview: Mike Nesbitt (leader of the UUP), Jim Allister (leader of the TUV)

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: 1985-2013

Key Individuals: Mike Nesbitt, Jim Allister, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir

Key Words: UUP, TUV, flag, Unionist Forum, Anglo-Irish Agreeement, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein, commemoration

 

 

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