Filed under: Radio | Tags: Baltimore, Belfast, Blitz Chess, Caffeine, Chess, Chess Tournaments, Chris Millar, Drunkenness, Energy Drinks, Northern Ireland, Poker Face, Postal Chess, Queen’s Chess Club, Queen’s University Belfast, Sheep, Smiling, Students, Ulster Club Championship
Chess in Bar Sub
It’s all about chess on episode 36, with interviews with three members of the QUB Chess Club, Chris Millar, Steve Scannell and Ciara Pugh. Since the club was brought back to life in 2005, its players have found great success, winning the title of Irish University Champions last year and Ulster Club Champions this year. This month, several of the Queen’s players head to Greece for a Europe-wide tournament. In today’s episode, Chris, Steve and Ciara talk about their entry into the world of chess, their stress levels, their game faces, their addictions, and their strategies for victory.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Belfast, Cafe Krem, Capitalism, Chapters Cafe, China, Coffee, Manchester, Northern Ireland, PFC, PFCafe, Queen's University Belfast, Student's Union, Students, University, Work
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Accent, Age, Alcoholism, Art, Belfast, Belfast Wheel, Body, Body Image, Botanic Gardens, Chinese, Drinking, Drunkeness, East Belfast, Education, Family, Feminism, Foreigners, Gender, Generalizations, Hair, Image, Immigration, Independence, Language, Latin Culture, Life, Life Plan, Locals, London, Make-up, Mediterranean Culture, Mockery, Nationalism, Northern Ireland, Perfect Women, QUB, Queen's University Belfast, Relaxation, South Belfast, Spain, Stereotypes, Stress, Students, Superficiality, Teenagers, The Bot, The Eg, The Parlour, Turkmenistan, UK, Ultimate Frisbee, Weather, West Belfast, Women, Work, Working Class
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Abortion, Adoption, Adoption Agency, Armhair, Attraction, Babies, Belfast, Birth Control, Birth Parents, Bitchiness, Boat Cruise, Boredom, Boyfriends, Catholic Church, Chatting Up, Chronic Fatigue, Concentration, Detroit, Diapers, Doctors, Downs Syndrome, Drugs, Energy Ration, Family, Flab, Flirting, Foster Parent, Gender, Grandparents, Health, HIV, Illness, Insanity, Love, Marriage, ME, Memory, Motherhood, Muscle, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Names, Night-feeding, Northern Ireland, Overbathing, Physical Therapy, Pittsburgh, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Race, Rape, Retirement, Russia, Sex, Social Life, Special Needs, Speed Dating, Students, Susan Darin Hagan, Swearing, Teenage Pregnancy, Travel, Urine, Vodka, Waitressing, Wheelchair, Yuppie Flu
The Chair
A young Belfast woman talks frankly about life with ME (or chronic fatigue syndrome) in the first half of the show. She discusses how the illness arrived, how it induced swearing and rattiness from her, and what the trade-offs have been. Also: whether she wants people to push her in the wheelchair, her plans for family or nunhood, and how she’s found men look at women in a chair.
In the second half, foster mother Susan Hagan talks about all the babies that have come in and out of her home. She, along with her husband and family, has been fostering newborns for the past seven years through a Pittsburgh agency. The babies stay for a weeks or months, and Susan describes what life with them (and without them) is like — including the health concerns, naming choices, attachment issues, and relationships with birth and adoptive parents.
A Foster Baby
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Belfast, Communism, Diaspora, Ireland, Loyalism, Northern Ireland, Patrick Pierce, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Republicans, Students, Tony Novosel, Unionism, University of Pittsburgh
More from Tony: http://anotherworldradio.com/2007/11/20/episode-1-tony-novosel-miroslav-budinski/
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Amsterdam, Austin Brown, Belfast, Belfast Bicycle Workshop, Bicycle Repair Man, Bicylces, Bike Pirates, Bike Tours, Blind Bicycling, Botanic Avenue, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, City Planning, Community Bicycle Workshop, Critical Mass, Cuba, Derry, Drunk Cycling, Environment, Flann O'Brien, Foreigners, Funny Hats, Glenchain Pass, Holland, Holylands, Hooliganism, I Fix Bikes, I Think Bikes, Lifecycles, Monty Python, Mother Teresa, North Belfast, Northern Ireland, Paddy Bloomer, Pedestrians, Queen's University Belfast, Recycling, Sam Ruscica, Sammy the Seal, Smithfield Markets, South Belfast, Stag Parties, Students, Sustrans, Tandem Bikes, The Third Policeman, The Workshops, Toronto, Tourism, Unprovoked Abuse, Vandalism, Vegetarian Chili, Yellow Bike Project
Sam, at I Fix Bikes
This week, bicycling in Belfast.
Sam Ruscica, the ‘Mother Teresa of Broken Bikes’ in Belfast, talks about his shop “I Fix Bikes” in the Smithfield Market, as well as his plans for the future. He’d like to move from rescuing all the abandoned and abused bikes in town to managing a community bike shop, teaching people how to build and fix bikes for themselves. Sam also talks about Bike Pirates of Toronto, the abuse and flying objects he encounters while riding through the city, and the DIY Wednesdays he hosts at his shop.
Austin, at Belfast Bicycle Workshop
Then Austin Brown of Belfast Bicycle Workshop talks about his work repairing and selling bicycles, as well as leading bike tours of the city. He is located in ‘The Workshops’ on Lawrence Street in the Holylands, after having run Lifecycles down in the Smithfield Markets for many years. Austin explains why there’s not a critical mass in Belfast & how he’s trying to generate a bike culture here. He can be reached at 028 9043 9959, or at info@lifecycles.co.uk.
The ‘Bicycle Repair Man’ skit from Monty Python, from which Sam derives his job title.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Bacon, BBC, Belfast, Cabbage, Cereal, Champ, Curry, Film, John Vance, Queen's University Belfast, Restaurant, Spuds, Stephen Bleakney, Students, The Troubles
Spuds
Episode 13 goes to Spuds to talk with its owner John Vance about the restaurant’s place in Belfast. The second half features an interview with Stephen Blakeney, the head of Queen’s Movie Society, about the society’s short films and the state of film-making in Northern Ireland today.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Art, Belfast, BT, Call Centres, Chicken factory, County Down, Dance, Dizziness, Film, Hygiene, Immigration, Islam, Jared Longlands, Kemal Yilmaz, Konya, Law, Life plans, Litter, Menial labor, Northern Ireland, Pantomime, Portugese, Projectionisht, QFT, Religion, Students, Turkey, Waterfront, Whirling Dervish, Writing
Whirling Dervishes in action
This week the program features an interview with Kemal Yilmaz, a whirling dervish who recently travelled from Turkey to perform in Belfast. He’s been a dervish since his early teens, now he’s studying law and whirling in the meantime.
Then Jared Longlands talks about authoring anti-litter pantomimes, living the creative life, and surviving menial labor. To see some of Jared’s writings, drawings, comics, and other creations, contact him via email, at smartturkey@hotmail.com.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Activism, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Belfast, Canada, Capitalism, Democratization, Duquesne, Ethnic Conflict, Exchanges, Gerry Adams, Irish-Americans, Novi Sad, Pittsburgh, Politics, Ruthenians, Serbia, Sheep-shearing, Socialism, Students, Teaching, The Troubles, University of Pittsburgh, USA, Vojvodina
Tony Novosel
The first episode of Another World features interviews with Tony Novosel and Miroslav Budinski. Tony speaks about teaching on the Northern Irish conflict in America and coordinating student exchanges between the US and Northern Ireland.
Miroslav, a shepherd and hostel operator in Novi Sad, the capital of the northern province of Vojvodina in Serbia, turns the conversation to sheep-shearing, socialism, and ethnic conflict.
Novi Sad's Central Square
