PIWeek 13March 26 - April 1, 2011

Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues

Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues Page 3BBC Northern Ireland pays tribute to legendary blues and rock musician Gary Moore with a one-off documentary looking at the life and career of the Belfast-born guitar hero. BBC Northern Ireland documentary wins RTS Programme Award Page 5BBC Northern Ireland has won a prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Award for the documentary Breaking The Silence.

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Programme Information New this week

BBC Radio Ulster’s Ralph McLean will host an outside broadcast from a special concert at the Flowerfield Arts Centre in Portstewart on Thursday, March 31 from 8pm-10pm. The programme will feature live music and chat from artists including Henry McCullough, Ben Glover, Anthony Toner, Eilidh Patterson, Clive Culbertson and Eilidh Bradley.

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Gary Moore – Still Got The BluesBBC Northern Ireland pays tribute to blues rock musician Gary Moore

Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues, BBC One Northern Ireland, Tuesday, March 29 at 10.35pm

BBC Northern Ireland is

paying tribute to legendary blues

and rock musician Gary Moore,

with a one-off documentary

looking at the life and career of the

Belfast-born guitar hero.

Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues, on BBC

One NI on Tuesday, March 29 at 10.35pm

features previously unseen BBC Northern

Ireland interview footage with Gary Moore

Legendary blues and rock musician Gary Moore

and talks to some of the people who knew

him throughout his illustrious career in

music which spanned five decades.

Belfast-born Gary Moore died of a heart

attack while on holiday in the Costa Del

Sol on February 6, 2011 aged just 58. He

was one of Northern Ireland’s best known

and respected musicians and left behind

him a legacy of classic blues and rock tracks

through his time with bands Skid Row, Thin

Lizzy and from his lauded solo career.

Gary Moore grew up just off the Newtownards Road in east Belfast and moved to Dublin at the age of 16 to make a name for himself on the rock scene there, where he was mentored for a while by Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green.

Before long he joined the band Skid Row with Brush Shiels and Noel Bridgeman and, for a while, Phil Lynott. He then joined Lynott again in Thin Lizzy, first for a short while in 1973, and again in 1977 during the

band’s most successful period.

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He worked both with Thin Lizzy and as a

solo artist throughout the 1970s and early

1980s, and produced 20 albums of his own

work. His solo work has also seen him

collaborate with such music legends as Bob

Dylan and BB King.

Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues

features new interviews with Gary Moore’s

Skid Row band mate Brush Shiels, his

Thin Lizzy band mates Scott Gorham and

Brian Downey, his former road manager

Frank Murray and music journalist Niall

Stokes. The programme also features rare,

never-before-broadcast interview foot-

Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy

age with Gary Moore, filmed in 2006. The

programme is narrated by Stuart Bailie.

Programme producer Tony Curry says:

“Gary Moore was one of the most talented

guitarists of his generation. He never lost

the passion for playing he discovered when

his dad bought him his first guitar as a 10

year old child.

“We interviewed him some years ago near

his home in Brighton for the So Hard To

Beat music documentaries and he was

very open about his career and modest

about his amazing ability. Viewers will see

Gary Moore tell his own story – from

the early days in Belfast and Dublin to the

international stage with Thin Lizzy and as a

solo artist.

“And the genuine affection for him from

fellow musicians is reflected in the warmth

of the memories of those who knew him

down the years.”

Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues is on

BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday,

March 29 at 10.35pm.

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BBC Northern Ireland documentary wins RTS Programme AwardBBC Northern Ireland has won

a prestigious Royal Television

Society (RTS) Programme Award

for the documentary Breaking

The Silence.

Breaking The Silence, an intimate

documentary looking at the issue of suicide,

won in the Nations and Regions Programme

category at the award ceremony,

which was hosted by Dara O’Briain at

London’s Grosvenor House on Tuesday night

(Tuesday, March 15).

Produced by Tern Television for BBC

Northern Ireland, Breaking The Silence

heard the heartbreaking testimonies of

parents who have lost their daughters

to suicide and a wife who has lost her

husband. In this moving programme, these

families shared their deeply personal

stories in the hope that the stigma and

taboo around suicide could be broken and

that, ultimately, more deaths by suicide

could be prevented.

The families, each from rural communities

in Co Armagh or Co Tyrone, bravely told

of their time with their loved ones in the

hours before they died, the horror and

devastation they experienced when they

discovered what had happened, and how

they each continue in their struggle to

come to terms with losing a loved one to

suicide.

Director and producer Brendan Byrne from

Tern TV says: “I’m incredibly honoured to

have been presented with this award for

a programme which dealt with a difficult

and taboo subject. We didn’t attempt to

find answers to impossible questions with

this programme; we simply wanted to bear

witness to the powerful testimony of

mothers, wives and fathers as they told of

the traumatic aftermath of suicide. I’d like

to thank the families who had such strength

and bravery to share their deeply personal

and harrowing stories with us. Without

them there would be no film.”

Deirdre Devlin, Executive Producer of

the documentary, says: “Breaking The

Silence was a deeply moving and important

documentary showing how suicide can

affect anyone. We’re incredibly

grateful to the Royal Television Society for

recognising the programme in this way and

I would like to extend that gratitude to the

contributors to this documentary who

demonstrated great courage, conviction

and kindness in sharing their painful stories

with us.”

Peter Johnston, Director BBC Northern

Ireland, said: “We are extremely proud

of this achievement for what was a very

powerful film exploring some very delicate

issues. Brendan Byrne demonstrated his

expert skills as a filmmaker by bringing

these upsetting personal testimonies to a

wider audience in a sensitive and honest

manner and he is wholly deserving of this

award.”

Breaking The Silence was broadcast on

BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday,

April 12, 2010.

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On BBC Radio Ulster This WeekIn a new series for BBC Radio Ulster, musician and Folk Club presenter Colum Sands dips into the rich wealth of traditional and contemporary folk music and song recorded by BBC Radio Ulster over recent years.

In the first programme of the Radio Sessions series, on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday, March 27 at 4.30pm, Colum features a very special and poignant concert featuring the Clancy Brothers, Liam, Paddy and Bobby - recorded as they received the Fiddler’s Green Hall of Fame Award in Rostrevor in July 1994. Sadly all three have since passed away, leaving performances like this as their enduring legacy.

In the fifth and final programme of BBC Radio Ulster’s In The Footsteps series, on Sunday, March 27 at 1.30pm, newspaper editor Jim McDowell investigates the life of Rinty Monaghan. The first Irishman to win the Flyweight Boxing World Championship title, Monaghan’s contribution to the world of boxing is legendary, but it was a life of ups and downs for the man who was as well known for singing in the ring as fighting in it. Jim is seen here with Barney Eastwood beside Rinty’s blue plaque at the King’s Hall. The In The Footsteps series has seen five personalities take a journey in the footsteps of a figure they’ve always been interested in but know little about. From comedian and writer Tim McGarry on Edward Carson to Lynda Bryan’s journey to better understand the philosophy of Francis Hutcheson, each week unveils a different era and a different contribution to history and culture.