Audio interview with Alex Kane, political commentator, and Seamus Close, former deputy leader of the Alliance Party, by Stephen Nolan for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 25 October 2013. Six days earlier Gerry Kelly had launched his new book ‘The Escape’, an account of the Maze/Long Kesh prison escape of 25 September 1983. The publication was also released close to the twentieth anniversary of the Shankill bombing. Kelly had been criticised within some circles for his participation in a public commemoration for the Shankill bomber Thomas Begley. Earlier that day a Stephen Nolan interview with Gerry Kelly was broadcast. Kane and Close react to the interview and Kelly’s book. The Nolan Show is a daily current affairs programme on BBC Radio Ulster.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 25 October 2013
Name of First Interviewee: Alex Kane
Name of Second Interviewee: Seamus Close
Role at time of Interview: Alex Kane (political commentator), Seamus Close (political commentator)
Interviewer: Stephen Nolan
Purpose: News
Media: Audio
Copyright: BBC © 2013
Link: Listen to the interview
Programme/Book/Article: BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show
Time Period covered: 1983-2013
Key Individuals: Alex Kane, Seamus Close, Gerry Kelly, Thomas Begley, Sean Kelly
Key Words: Maze/Long Kesh prison escape, Sinn Fein, IRA, commemoration, Shankill bombing, partition, Truth Commission, hierarchy of victims