Talkback Episodes Episode guide
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Benefits
Should benefits be scrapped from people who says they can't work because they are obese?
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Belfast Zoo is running at a loss of almost £2million a year in ratepayers' money - so is it time to close it?
Belfast Zoo is running at a loss of almost £2m per year - it it worth keeping?
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Belfast Pride takes place tomorrow, and staff from BBC Northern Ireland will be there as part of a new BBC Pride initiative.
Is the BBC's impartiality in question as a result?
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Belfast is booming as a destination for hen and stag dos
Chris Buckler sits in for William Crawley
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Belfast couple married 53 years die within hours of each other after contracting Covid-19.
The daughter of Christopher and Isobel Vallely pays tribute to her "loving" parents.
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Belfast councillors have recommended a city-wide public consultation on what flags should be flown, where and when.
Belfast residents are to be asked for their opinions on the flying of flags
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Belfast City Hall summit explores the issues underlying begging on our streets
Do we make things worse if we give money to someone begging or is it common decency?
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Belfast City Councillors will vote tonight on a motion pressing for action to tackle the issue of fixed odds betting terminals
Dr John Kyle, who is proposing the motion, Mark Baillie and Christopher Snowden discuss
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Belfast City councillors have blocked a council official from participating in a trade mission to Israel. We find out why.
We hear from Sinn Féin councillor Deirdre Hargey and the Reverend Chris Hudson
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Belfast City Council voted to take legal action to force the removal of paramilitary flags and banners from lamp posts.
Is that a step in the right direction or could it lead to another stand-off over flags?
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Belfast City Council launched a new Cleansing Taskforce earlier this week to deal with the city's growing litter problem.
But is there something more we could be doing as citizens? William & guests discuss
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Belfast City Council is to discuss the future of Belfast Zoo, but does it have a future or should it be closed?
William and guests discuss whether Belfast Zoo has a future.
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Being an asylum seeker in Northern Ireland
A Yemeni doctor tells William about her life in the limbo of our immigration system.
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Before his death in a Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, Geoffrey Whaley calls for a change in the assisted suicide law
William speaks to Caroline Villar and Dr Gordon MacDonald
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BBC understands the First Minister Paul Givan will resign this afternoon, effective immediately
This comes after Edwin Poots ordered an end to checks on goods at the Irish Sea Border.
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BBC Spotlight has revelations about the late Ian Paisley financing a bomb & footage of Martin McGuinness assembling a bomb.
Do those revelations change your view of them and their legacy?
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BBC Radio Ulster - Talkback, Is the Protocol "working too well"?
Is a big increase in north/south trade as a result of the Protocol a bad thing?
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BBC Radio Ulster - Talkback, If you are not vaccinated, are you potentially harming other people?
Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp compares not getting the jab to drink driving - is he right?
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BBC Radio Foyle Breakfast Show bows out
Tara speaks to current and past presenters and producers, and the NUJ.
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Barrister and former GAA player Joe Brolly has described Northern Ireland as "diseased" and "dysfunctional." Is he right?
He says that NI has become intolerable to those who identify as Irish
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Baroness Blood & gesture politics
Baroness May Blood thinks the focus on gesture politics, like Prince Charles's with is...
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Ballymurphy verdict: what next?
Should there be an apology?
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Ballymena Disorder and Riots
What should politicians in NI say in response to that kind of disorder?
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Babies & earpiercing
Is it time to ban parents from piercing their babies' ears?
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Author David Rieff says that public acts of remembering our traumatic past leads to a society becoming unable to heal
Is there a moral case for forgetting our past and not keeping the painful wounds alive?
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Australian airline Qantas says when the vaccine's available, they'll only carry people who've been vaccinated. Extreme or not?
No jab, no journey. Is that a reasonable requirement before travelling on a plane?
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Attempts to flee Afghanistan
We speak to a man trying to leave Afghanistan after the Taliban takes over the country.
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At its party conference, the SNP has voted unanimously to decriminalise the possession and consumption of controlled drugs
Have they taken a step in the right direction?
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Assisted Dying
William Crawley discusses whether the law on assisted dying needs to change
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Assisted Dying
Assisted dying is back in the news as a father of three ends his life at a clinic in...