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Belonging

Philip Dodd talks abut to actor Christopher Eccleston about class and being born in the North and to historian Ruth Dudley Edwards about Northern Irish politics and identity.

Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards and asks them for their views on the way identity and a sense of belonging are shifting.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

You can hear Christopher Eccleston in Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 3's Drama Schreber, see him in the RSC Macbeth production as part of the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Culture in Quarantine season and in the latest series of the TV drama the A Word.
Ruth Dudley Edwards' books include The Seven — The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic and her latest crime fiction title Killing The Emperors

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