The BelTel
The BelTel

The BelTel

Belfast Telegraph

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The BelTel brings you some of Northern Ireland's top journalists, Allison Morris, Sam McBride and Suzanne Breen to name but a few, giving you the inside stories behind what is in the news. Presented by Ciarán Dunbar, the Bel Tel investigates, debates and informs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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Recent Episodes

Don Anderson: The NI journalist who escaped fall of Saigon as airport burned tells the story of reporting Vietnam
DEC 13, 2024
Don Anderson: The NI journalist who escaped fall of Saigon as airport burned tells the story of reporting Vietnam

Don Anderson was one of the BBC’s TV reporters in Saigon during the final days of the Vietnam War. He joins Ciarán Dunbar to tell his incredible story of his time in Vietnam, including accidentally finding himself in a minefield, his near-death experiences on the front line, and the fall of Saigon in April 1975.  


 


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27 MIN
‘Peace’ game is up for UVF chief Winston “Winkie” Irvine as he finally admits gun charges
DEC 11, 2024
‘Peace’ game is up for UVF chief Winston “Winkie” Irvine as he finally admits gun charges

UVF chief Winston “Winkie” Irvine is facing jail time after pleading guilty to firearms charges. It means the well-known loyalist Irvine’s dual-career has a tax-funded community worker and paramilitary is well and truly over.  

Who’s Winkie Irvine? How did he get caught? What does this mean for his role in loyalist transitioning?  

Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Allison Morris. 



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22 MIN
'Revolutionary Years' : 1913 to 1923, 10 years which changed Ireland
DEC 9, 2024
'Revolutionary Years' : 1913 to 1923, 10 years which changed Ireland
In 1913, Ireland, the whole of Ireland, was an integrated and peaceful part of the UK – albeit one with a strong home rule movement and a strong counter-home rule movement. It had two private and opposing armies and a secret underground brotherhood dedicated to winning an Irish Republic by force. A world war, a rising, a guerilla war and a civil war later, most of Ireland had left the UK by 1923, becoming the Irish Free State, and of course, Northern Ireland was born. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Professor Mike Cronin of Boston College Ireland. 

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27 MIN
MasterChef's Gregg Wallace: What is being alleged?
DEC 8, 2024
MasterChef's Gregg Wallace: What is being alleged?
What are the allegations being made against Gregg Wallace that have led to him stepping down as host of the BBC’s flagship show MasterChef and doe sit mean for the BBC and the MeToo movement? Host: Fionnán Sheahan Guests: Enda Brady & Niamh Horan

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26 MIN
‘Mr-Fix-it': Newry's Rory Trainor facing jail for EncroChat money laundering, Ciaran Barnes reports
DEC 6, 2024
‘Mr-Fix-it': Newry's Rory Trainor facing jail for EncroChat money laundering, Ciaran Barnes reports
Newry millionaire money launderer ‘Mr-Fix-it' is now facing lengthy jail time. Rory Trainor was snared following a Europe-wide investigation into the EncroChat phone network. After spending almost 5 years fighting 39 charges he admitted guilt to drug and illegal cash charges, confessing to laundering almost £1.4 million. Sunday Life’s Ciaran Barnes joins Ciarán Dunbar.

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18 MIN