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Apr 2021
26m 52s

Fire on the streets of Northern Ireland

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Tensions have erupted in Northern Ireland once again, as leaders attempt to preserve a long-standing peace deal in the region. Twenty-three years after the Good Friday Agreement, why does peace in Northern Ireland seem so precarious and what happens next? 

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Guest: Henry McDonald, Author, journalist and contributor to The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch.

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