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Belonging

Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston about class and being born in the north and to historian Ruth Dudley Edwards about Northern Irish politics and identity.

Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards and asks them for their views on the way identity and a sense of belonging are shifting.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Ruth Dudley Edwards' books include The Seven — The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic and her latest crime fiction title Killing The Emperors
You can hear Christopher Eccleston in 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3's Drama Schreber by Anthony Burgess /sounds/play/m000gl45
see him in the RSC Macbeth production as part of the 91Èȱ¬ Culture in Quarantine season /arts
and in the latest series of the TV drama the A Word.

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44 minutes

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Wed 8 Apr 2020 22:00

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  • Wed 8 Apr 2020 22:00

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