This month the Party Fodder Posse went to Delamont Country Park to bring you intervies from The Answer, John Shelly and The Creatures and Bocs Social.
We’ve also got local aperitifs in the form of The Good Fight, Girls Names, More Than Conqurors and Not Squares. This is a killer episode of Party Fodder.
Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman talk with Andy McMillan, founder of Build, an annual “hand-crafted web design conference” located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and CSS godfather Eric Meyer, co-founder of An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites.
Eric is the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting, a co-founder of the microformats movement, and co-founder (with Jeffrey Zeldman) of An Event Apart, the conference series for people who make web sites. Eric acts as List Chaperone for the highly active css-discuss mailing list, enjoys a good meal whenever possible, and considers almost no type of music to be worthless. He lives in Cleveland Heights with his wife and daughters.
Andy McMillan is a six foot tall ape descendant who enjoys working on the internet, organizing buildconf (a small, yet perfectly formed, design conference taking place this November in Belfast, Northern Ireland).
In the Spring and Summer of 1981, 10 Republican prisoners in the H Block section of the Maze Prison outside Belfast undertook a hunger strike to the death, with the aim of achieving ‘special category status’ for those convicted under Northern Ireland’s extensive anti terrorist and emergency laws. They were led by Bobby Sands, the Officer Commanding the Provisional IRA prisoners. The British Government insisted they were criminals, they saw themselves as prisoners of war.
This program features a number of rare interviews with Republicans recorded in Ireland in 1981 by Brendan Frost. It includes the voices of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, prison chaplains Father Dennis Faul and Father Raymond Murray,as well as ex prisoners from the Maze and Armagh Women’s Prison.
As part of this retrospective porgram, Jim Short, from Crossmaglen in South Armagh, looks back at the events of 30 years ago and reflects on the present situation in Northern Ireland.
When artist Bill Drummond discovered Belfast wasn’t twinned with anywhere he made a sign and put it up under the city’s welcome notice. It said ‘Belfast: Twinned with Your Wildest Dreams’. In this programme, Bill shares his vision of the city: his memories of glamorous 1930s cinemas with glittering curtains, of spontaneous creative happenings and a landscape where the smell of the mountain heather seeps down to the city centre. With a range of urban guides, Bill offers a tour of Belfast unlike any you’ve heard before.
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