Presenters Tim McGarry and David Hume
Following on from its success on BBC Radio Ulster, the award-winning series The Long And The Short Of It makes its TV debut on BBC One Northern Ireland with presenters Tim McGarry, a 'self-styled' six-foot four comedian, and vertically challenged Orangeman and historian Dr David Hume.
Following on from its success on BBC Radio Ulster, the award-winning series The Long And The Short Of It makes its TV debut on BBC One Northern Ireland with presenters Tim McGarry, a 'self-styled' six-foot four comedian, and vertically challenged Orangeman and historian Dr David Hume.
Over the course of four 30-minute programmes David and Tim investigate Irish history from different perspectives. In the first programme they consider ‘The Siege of Derry – Was Lundy a traitor?’
Commenting on the new show, Tim McGarry says:
"I'm delighted that David and I can finally bring The Long And The Short Of It to television. After seven series on radio people will at last get to see how the show got its title. It was great to bring our brilliant radio producer Helen Bamberry with us to ensure we kept the essence of the show which is basically David Hume being wrong about stuff!"
David Hume adds:
"It has been great fun to make the series and hopefully viewers will find it enjoyable and informative. I try to exercise as much patience with Tim as possible even when, metaphorically speaking, he goes off down the wrong road. At some point he will realise I am right. But I can only reflect that the answer to that recurring journey question "are we nearly there yet" remains 'Not quite'...
"Seriously though, we have got lots of very positive feedback regarding the radio series over the years, and the key message is that people from different perspectives can bicker and disagree about Irish history, but still be friends."
The series has been made for BBC Northern Ireland by the Hole in the Wall Gang.
The Long And The Short Of It begins tonight (Friday 9 September) at 7:30pm on BBC One Northern Ireland.