The State of Us Podcast
Tara Mills and Declan Harvey react and reflect on news stories in a BBC NI podcast.
Episodes to download
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The State of Us Live: Blue Lights’ Michael Smiley and Joanne Crawford
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Michael Smiley and Joanne Crawford on season three of award-winning TV drama Blue Lights
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The State of Us Live Show: The career of a BBC Panorama reporter
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Darragh MacIntyre on Cpt Robert Nairac, Virginia Giuffre & BBC impartiality
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Northern Ireland’s smear test ‘scandal’ – explained
Thu 6 Nov 2025
17,500 tests rechecked - what was happening in the Southern Trust?
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The children married in Northern Ireland
Tue 4 Nov 2025
16 and 17 year olds can still marry here. Why hasn’t the law changed yet?
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Soldier F – Not guilty
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Former paratrooper not guilty of murdering two people on Bloody Sunday in 1972
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TV writer says pro-Israeli views shut out of the arts
Tue 21 Oct 2025
David Ireland on his loyalist roots, Israel, alcoholism & God
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Parents of SEN child convicted over school non-attendance
Thu 16 Oct 2025
Leigh and James Bryson spent £30k defending themselves in court.
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Did Northern Ireland really inspire Trump's Israel/Gaza peace plan?
Tue 14 Oct 2025
And can mediators and negotiators learn anything from our past?
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Do mugshots matter?
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Why did the PSNI delay publishing a mugshot of a rapist on the run?
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What the **** is happening in golf?
Thu 2 Oct 2025
Swearing, shouting, and lobbing pints – The Ryder Cup 2025
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Fighting poverty in NI: The minister defends his plan
Tue 30 Sep 2025
The communities minister answers the critics of his anti-poverty strategy.
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Bonus: Kneecap’s Mo Chara terrorism case thrown out
Fri 26 Sep 2025
What happened in court and the reaction from outside – Kelly Bonner speaks to Declan
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Was the PSNI spying on journalists?
Thu 25 Sep 2025
How police used covert powers to unlawfully try to uncover reporters’ sources
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Irish presidential election hots up
Tue 23 Sep 2025
The clock is ticking for nominations – who could be the next president of Ireland?
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Blue Lights – the new series
Thu 18 Sep 2025
The award winning police drama was the brainchild of producer Louise Gallagher
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Uncovering the truth about Katie Simpson’s death
Tue 16 Sep 2025
The secret investigation that led to a murder trial that shook the equestrian community
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Stuart Robinson: ‘Behind enemy lines’ chatting about the Cool FM cash call, BBC licence fee & the biggest show in the country
Thu 11 Sep 2025
He also talks about Barra Best & a cocktail, and his first ever presenting gig
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Tuam: Ireland’s secret burial shame
Tue 9 Sep 2025
Hundreds of babies & children buried in a mass grave. What the excavation has discovered
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Ireland's missing children: Donabate & Kyran Durnin
Thu 4 Sep 2025
The search for a missing boy in north county Dublin & the case of Kyran Durnin
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The State of Stormont
Tue 2 Sep 2025
Summer is over, it's back to the benches for our MLAs – how are relations on the hill?
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The income you need to survive in Northern Ireland
Thu 28 Aug 2025
It might be more than you think – and families are being squeezed
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Palestine Action: Northern Ireland’s first arrest
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Tara & Declan talk to the woman arrested in Belfast wearing a Palestine Action t-shirt
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Secrets of a weather forecaster
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Weather presenters Cecilia & Barra on the science of forecasting & tricks of their trade
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The State of Ballymena
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Tara and Declan revisit Ballymena with MP Jim Allister, two months after the riots
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Chasing politicians into churches and more
Thu 7 Aug 2025
The Burke family come north, plus hospital waiting lists and house prices.
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Why do some men kill?
Tue 5 Aug 2025
Tara and Declan explore why 29 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland since 2020
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Maguiresbridge murders: A rural village plunged into tragedy again
Tue 29 Jul 2025
A mother and her two children murdered in their own home
