BBC

Panorama Opt – Out - Controller’s Report - BBC Northern Ireland Advisory Council Minutes, Oct 1970

On Mr T G McLaughlin’s suggestion, it was agreed that this item, proposed by him for the Agenda, should be discussed under the ‘Press and Public Relations’ section of Controller’s Report. Mr Maguire ...
BBC

Local Colour Television Arrives - Controller’s Report - BBC Northern Ireland Advisory Council Minutes, October 1970

The BBC1 Colour Service came to Northern Ireland on September 18th. Almost all network programmes are now in colour, and we hope to begin transmitting some local programmes on film in colour during ...
Irish Central

Ireland in the 1970s – a powerful new book by historian Diarmuid Ferriter

For anyone who came of age in Ireland during the 1970s, festivals loomed large. There were all kinds of great festivals on the calendar. The Dublin Horse Show in August was in its pomp. The Listowel ...
Belfast Telegraph

Campaigners urge Riverside Theatre co-funder from 1970s to help save it: ‘This is not a dying theatre – it is an underfunded one’

A local actor who is leading a campaign to save the Riverside Theatre in Coleraine has made an urgent appeal to an organisation that co-funded the venue back in the 1970s. The 350-seater Riverside ...