The State of Us Podcast
Tara Mills and Declan Harvey react and reflect on news stories in a BBC NI podcast.
Episodes to download
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What the **** is happening in golf?
Thu 2 Oct 2025
Swearing, shouting, and lobbing pints – The Ryder Cup 2025
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Fighting poverty in NI: The minister defends his plan
Tue 30 Sep 2025
The communities minister answers the critics of his anti-poverty strategy.
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Bonus: Kneecap’s Mo Chara terrorism case thrown out
Fri 26 Sep 2025
What happened in court and the reaction from outside – Kelly Bonner speaks to Declan
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Was the PSNI spying on journalists?
Thu 25 Sep 2025
How police used covert powers to unlawfully try to uncover reporters’ sources
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Irish presidential election hots up
Tue 23 Sep 2025
The clock is ticking for nominations – who could be the next president of Ireland?
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Blue Lights – the new series
Thu 18 Sep 2025
The award winning police drama was the brainchild of producer Louise Gallagher
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Uncovering the truth about Katie Simpson’s death
Tue 16 Sep 2025
The secret investigation that led to a murder trial that shook the equestrian community
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Stuart Robinson: ‘Behind enemy lines’ chatting about the Cool FM cash call, BBC licence fee & the biggest show in the country
Thu 11 Sep 2025
He also talks about Barra Best & a cocktail, and his first ever presenting gig
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Tuam: Ireland’s secret burial shame
Tue 9 Sep 2025
Hundreds of babies & children buried in a mass grave. What the excavation has discovered
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Ireland's missing children: Donabate & Kyran Durnin
Thu 4 Sep 2025
The search for a missing boy in north county Dublin & the case of Kyran Durnin
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The State of Stormont
Tue 2 Sep 2025
Summer is over, it's back to the benches for our MLAs – how are relations on the hill?
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The income you need to survive in Northern Ireland
Thu 28 Aug 2025
It might be more than you think – and families are being squeezed
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Palestine Action: Northern Ireland’s first arrest
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Tara & Declan talk to the woman arrested in Belfast wearing a Palestine Action t-shirt
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Secrets of a weather forecaster
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Weather presenters Cecilia & Barra on the science of forecasting & tricks of their trade
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The State of Ballymena
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Tara and Declan revisit Ballymena with MP Jim Allister, two months after the riots
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Chasing politicians into churches and more
Thu 7 Aug 2025
The Burke family come north, plus hospital waiting lists and house prices.
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Why do some men kill?
Tue 5 Aug 2025
Tara and Declan explore why 29 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland since 2020
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Maguiresbridge murders: A rural village plunged into tragedy again
Tue 29 Jul 2025
A mother and her two children murdered in their own home
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“I lost £5,000 after going to an IVF middleman”
Tue 15 Jul 2025
What do you do when the IVF company you’re using goes bust?
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Libel lawyer to the rich and famous…and to Gerry Adams – Paul Tweed
Tue 8 Jul 2025
Paul Tweed on Gerry Adams, the BBC and Tom Cruise
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A mother jailed for cruelty and assault against her son – Jamie’s story
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Knifed and forced to eat cat litter – just some of the abuse Jamie suffered
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What do kids really get up to on their phones?
Thu 26 Jun 2025
The State of Us has asked 240 kids about their online lives, the results may surprise you
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The A5 upgrade has been blocked…again
Tue 24 Jun 2025
A judge has blocked the long-delayed A5 project from going ahead in its current form
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Suppressing a sex abuse secret: Why the voice of rugby stopped talking
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Mark Robson was sexually abused as a child by paedophile teacher Lindsay Brown
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Tattle Life: A £300k payout in libel damages for gossip website
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Tara & Declan talk about the Co Antrim couple who sued the gossip website Tattle Life
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Race riots, Minister resignation calls & the Casement Park soap opera
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Tara & Declan talk about arson at Larne Leisure Centre & the full story of Casement Park
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EXTRA: Race riots in Ballymena
Wed 11 Jun 2025
What is happening in Ballymena? Tara and Declan look at a second night of violence
