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Tim McGarry, a six foot four comedian, joins vertically challenged Orangeman and historian, Dr David Hume, to look at a number of fascinating historical incidents and people in Irish history. The unlikely duo investigates well known historical events from different perspectives, to give the listener the long and the short of it. In this fifth episode in the eighth series, they look at the significance the Battle of the Somme holds for unionists in Northern Ireland, and the consequences this pivotal moment in World War One had for communities across the island right up to the present day. Joining the two on their discovery about what lasting impacts the Somme had on Britain, Ireland and beyond are historians Professor Richard Grayson, Professor Dominic Bryan and Carol Walker MBE.