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| Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1969 | 2 Programmes |
Date Broadcast: |
Thu 21st Aug 1969 | Duration: |
50 mins |
Broadcast Company: |
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) | Channel: |
BBC1 |
Type of Programme: |
Current Affairs | ||
Series Title: |
Panorama | ||
Programme Title: |
The Violent Days of Ulster | ||
Description: |
A day by day look at the outbreak of 'the Troubles' using newsreel footage of the time. Also interviews with Ian Paisley, John Hume, and Robert Bradford. | ||
DVD No. |
Tape No. |
89A | |
Country of Origin: |
England | Record No. |
2 |
Date Broadcast: |
Mon 1st Sep 1969 | Duration: |
30 mins 47 secs |
Broadcast Company: |
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) | Channel: |
BBC NI |
Type of Programme: |
Documentary | ||
Series Title: |
n.a. | ||
Programme Title: |
John Hume's Derry | ||
Description: |
(The previous BBC NI documentary on this disk - D08890 - entitled 'Hume', uses old Film clips from this September 1969 documentary and says so at the beginning and end. This is the complete programme on John Hume's Derry. The picture is very grainy and poor, but the sound is good. It is John Hume himself who narrates the programme, and he outlines his vision for Northern Ireland politics as he saw things back in 1969.) Programme begins with John Hume saying the City of Derry is at the rioting in the Bogside, Hume defines the two different traditions in the City. Unionist / Protestant, Catholic / Nationalist, he says the problem of Northern Ireland has always been about the domination of one community by the other, he outlines the importance of Derry to Protestants, it was the first colony of London. Its symbols are everywhere says Hume. He goes on to profile the 1688 Siege of Derry, Film clip shows Unionist Streets bedecked with Union flags. Hume says today's Unionists still have a siege mentality and do not trust their neighbours, yet they are no different, no richer than their Catholic neighbours, and fear is at the root of their prejudice, fear of Rome, of Catholic Church, fear of United Ireland, to create equality in Northern Ireland these fears must be dealt with. Film shown of songs sung around a bonfire, then Film of Apprentice Boys Parade on 12 August. Hume calls the exhibitors tribal and elemental, he has sympathy as they are victims of a past they did create. Then Film switches to Bogside and shows Derry's Catholics going to Mass, in 1921 after partition Derry lost its National hinterland in Donegal, the Bogsiders became the living symbols of the injustices of the Northern Ireland State. Bogsiders are united by their religion but divided in their politics, St Columb is profiled, he mentions how religion and names and schools attended identifies the Bogsiders, the Catholics distrust all things Unionist, Politicians cannot breach this mutual distrust if they wanted to. Faith of our Fathers is song. Hume then comments on 19th century emigration from Derry to the USA, which has drawn the life blood from Derry over the years. Today, they still go, Derry's dock lines are in decline and they employed Catholics, he comments on effects of emigration in his own street only 17 out of 42 men his age stayed. Danny Boy is played on a comb by a man. Focus then on Derry's women, and the prosperity given by the shirt factories, he outlines the strength of Derry's women. One out of five men is out of work, Film clip of unemployed men shown. Then Hume focus on allocation of housing controlled by Unionists, as houses mean votes, by 1968 one out of ten people had no home, he talks of the effects of this, although Catholics are two-thirds of Derry's population, the one-third of Unionist people hold Derry by electoral gerrymandering. Hume explains the system, it is no coincidence the areas of highest unemployment are those traditionally opposed to Unionism, he outlines the list of factors Unionists used to downgrade Derry, the second university, etc. On October 5th, 1968 Nationalism exploded, from now on Unionism was being met by its own slogans no surrender and not an inch. Film shown of Bogside riots, people marched under Civil Rights banner to achieve equality, ironically the siege of Bogside took place, the problem is thrown into the Westminster arena, Film of British troops in Derry, but is Northern Ireland State capable of living with justice, will the right wing of Unionism agree to justice, the Unionist right wing has always opposed change, Film of Labour's Jim Callaghan on the streets of Derry. Derry needs people's minds and hearts to change. |
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DVD No. |
D08890 | Tape No. |
471 |
Country of Origin: |
Northern Ireland | Record No. |
8068 |
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