
Red Lines
The back-stop’s here? Bad puns with top political coverage from Northern Ireland. Red Lines brings you essential analysis and commentary by BBC NI’s politics team.
Latest episodes

Feb 9, 2022 • 28min
It's the way you tell'em...
How does the government get its message across during a political crisis?

Feb 2, 2022 • 26min
The art of politics and the politics of art
Can art catalyse political change?

Jan 26, 2022 • 27min
What's another year?
What's changed since the last election? Rev Steve Stockman and Fr Martin Magill reflect

Jan 19, 2022 • 30min
Sinn reign?
Mark Carruthers is in Dublin to talk to Daniel McConnell, Michael Brennan and Lucinda Creighton about how the rise of Sinn Féin in the Republic continues.

Jan 12, 2022 • 28min
2022 vision
Mark Carruthers asks Marie-Louise Connolly, John Campbell and Enda McClafferty to predict what's going to happen in the coming year.

Dec 21, 2021 • 52min
100 not out
Mark Carruthers discusses the big stories of the year with Gareth Gordon, Deirdre Heenan, Newton Emerson and Tim McGarry.

Dec 15, 2021 • 28min
Paperback Writers
Susan McKay, Henry McDonald & David Torrans pick their local literary highlights of 2021

Dec 8, 2021 • 27min
Reporting the Republic
Which southern stories cut through in the northern news cycle - and why?

Dec 1, 2021 • 28min
Hidden history
Mark Carruthers takes to the streets with historian Colm Ó Dóghair and Gemma Reid from the Belfast Entries Project.

Nov 23, 2021 • 29min
Poll Positions
Assessing how the latest polls might translate on election day. Mark chats to Suzanne Breen, David McCann, and Peter Donaghy.