Bicycle Recycling in Derry, and a Portadown man who governed in China
Helen Mark reports on Life Cycles, a project to repair bicycles in Derry, and Robin Masefield tells Anne Marie McAleese about Robert Hart, a Portadown man who governed in China.
Life Cycles is an initiative in Derry to restore bicycles which would have been dumped. Monica Downey started the project during lockdown, when people were cycling for exercise and to get about. So far they have saved 790 bikes in partnership with Zero Waste North West, and given away 150 fully restored bicycles. Helen Mark went to visit.
And Anne Marie McAleese hears the remarkable story of Robert Hart, from Portadown in County Armagh, who became one of the most powerful people in China. In the 19th century many Irish people worked and lived in China, Japan and Korea - but Hart was one of the most notable, involved in administering taxes on the opium trade, and presenting China overseas. His life and times are the focus of a new book by historian Robin Masefield from Holywood, County Down.
Presented by Anne Marie McAleese.
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