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 3, 2021 • 29min
EU-turn if you want to.
Mark & guests discuss the fallout from the EU's decision to trigger Article 16
Jan 27, 2021 • 30min
Brake for the border...
How has the relationship between Stormont & Dublin impacted on the battle with covid19?
Jan 20, 2021 • 35min
Make America relate again
Mark Carruthers speaks to Ambassador Richard Haass, Prof Clodagh Harrington, Shane Greer and Chris Buckler about how Donald Trump has changed the US Presidency.
Jan 13, 2021 • 29min
Zooming into Stormont
Mark Carruthers asks three of the newest faces at Stormont how they have coped with an almost virtual parliament.
Jan 6, 2021 • 29min
Union flak?
Has the DUP fired the starting gun on its 2022 election campaign?
Dec 16, 2020 • 32min
Covid-19 in 2020
Mark Carruthers is joined by Health Correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly, Jayne McCormack and Enda McClafferty to look back on what a global pandemic has changed in 2020.
Dec 9, 2020 • 29min
Talks, deals and a 'forty foot barge pole'
Mark Carruthers discusses deal-making in Brussels and Belfast with Gareth Gordon, columnist Mary Kelly and former Number 10 spin doctor Tom Kelly.
Dec 2, 2020 • 32min
Legacy troubles
Mark Carruthers is joined by former Victims' Commissioner Judith Thompson, Rev Dr Lesley Carroll from the Eames Bradley Group, and Alan McBride from the WAVE Trauma Centre.
Nov 25, 2020 • 28min
Centenary Sensitivities
Mark Carruthers is joined by Professor Pete Shirlow, columnist Andrée Murphy and Professor Duncan Morrow to discuss marking the centenary of Northern Ireland.
Nov 18, 2020 • 27min
Mandatory collision
Mark Carruthers is joined by Sam McBride, Suzanne Breen and John Manley to ask if the system of government at Stormont makes fighting a global pandemic impossible.
