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John Caldwell trial: Allison Morris has the latest as seven are charged
16 mins; May 30, 2023
Allison Morris and Sam McBride survey the NI political landscape after an election earthquake
43 mins; May 28, 2023
GAA manager Rory Gallagher, Nicola Gallagher and the domestic abuse allegations
17 mins; May 25, 2023
Lives taken (Pt 4 of 4): ‘I’m still seeking the truth, 51-years-on, I don’t want Robert’s name forgotten’
16 mins; May 23, 2023
Lives taken (Pt 3 of 4): RUC victim’s son says ‘The IRA had a choice, but they took away other people’s choices when they took their lives’
16 mins; May 23, 2023
Lives taken (Pt 2 of 4): ‘My father was murdered in front of me when I was ten’ - it was ‘ethnic cleansing’
15 mins; May 21, 2023
Lives taken (Pt 1 of 4): Slain UDR man’s daughter feels IRA wanted to "get rid of as many Protestants as possible"
15 mins; May 21, 2023
Profiled: Patrick Kielty, the new Late Late Show host
22 mins; May 19, 2023
‘How a cult brainwashed me, and how I escaped’
26 mins; May 18, 2023
Gerard Mackin: Meet the brutal Belfast-born Kinahan enforcer the Irish criminal underworld fears
26 mins; May 16, 2023
Elections in Belfast, can the ‘others’ become the largest block?
22 mins; May 14, 2023
Derry and Strabane Council will see Sinn FĂ©in and SDLP fight for the top spot – but the pack is snapping at their heels
30 mins; May 12, 2023
The Irish Famine: ‘Trevelyan’s Corn’ and should his descendants make amends?
23 mins; May 11, 2023
NI local elections: Nationalism, Unionism and others battle to win council seats
40 mins; May 09, 2023
Sectarian incidents continue: is the problem getting even worse?
30 mins; May 07, 2023
King Charles is crowned with support of just 42% of NI folk for monarchy
27 mins; May 04, 2023
LucidTalk: Polls, politics and parties – support for Sinn FĂ©in holds, unionists support DUP hardline on Stormont
34 mins; May 03, 2023
Ann Ogilby: Murdered by teenage UDA girls over jealousy
22 mins; May 02, 2023
‘Nutting Squad’: Third member of IRA's security unit suspected of being a double agent
21 mins; April 30, 2023
Sam McBride tells story of Mobuoy, the illegal super dump polluting Londonderry’s water supply
27 mins; April 27, 2023
Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 1): The life and crimes of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch
23 mins; April 25, 2023
Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 2): Robin Schiller's first-hand account of Regency shooting.
19 mins; April 25, 2023
Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 3): Jonathan Dowdall, criminal connections, and his shadow over Sinn FĂ©in
26 mins; April 25, 2023
Peace and sport in NI: poaching players, police playing GAA, Premier League football in Belfast and the Giants
26 mins; April 23, 2023
Colm Murphy: Who was the veteran republican found liable for Omagh Bombing?
27 mins; April 20, 2023
Columba McVeigh: The teenager 'disappeared' by the IRA
21 mins; April 18, 2023
Unsolved: Allison Morris investigates the murder of Michaela McAreavey
24 mins; April 16, 2023
Best of the BelTel: How ‘Mad Dog’ Adair lost the Shankill
26 mins; April 13, 2023
Best of the BelTel: How Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair took over the Shankill
23 mins; April 11, 2023
Freddie Scappaticci: British spy Stakeknife and IRA 'nutting squad' executioner
24 mins; April 11, 2023
Good Friday Agreement: ‘25 year later, we are no nearer to agreeing what happened’
30 mins; April 09, 2023
Peace at last? 25 years on from the Good Friday Agreement
25 mins; April 06, 2023
Good Friday Agreement: ‘We missed every opportunity’, admits Stormont’s former top spin-doctor
40 mins; April 04, 2023
Enoch Burke claims 'judge laughed, mocked, and ridiculed me' - controversial Christian's court travails
15 mins; April 03, 2023
What does Russia really want in Ukraine and what are ordinary Russians thinking?
28 mins; April 02, 2023
Scissor Sisters: Carved and discarded, the gruesome tactics of Dublin's murderous siblings
22 mins; March 30, 2023
MI5 raises terror threat in NI to “severe” before US president Biden visit
27 mins; March 29, 2023
East Belfast UVF expels 20 for drug-dealing as PSNI crack down
18 mins; March 28, 2023
South-East Antrim UDA: ‘Purge’ underway as new management takes over
23 mins; March 26, 2023
The week that was in it, Boris, Trump, and the price of a pint
26 mins; March 23, 2023
Census reveals lower percentage of LGB+ people in NI and more
25 mins; March 22, 2023
Michael O'Neill: Can the returning Northern Ireland manager recapture the magic of Euro 2016?
25 mins; March 21, 2023
New IRA: Why do dissident republicans continue with their violent campaigns?
33 mins; March 19, 2023
The Burkes: Mayo Christian family cause chaos in court
23 mins; March 16, 2023
Jeffrey Donaldson’s quandary as DUP supporters say ‘No’ to Windsor Framework Brexit deal
42 mins; March 15, 2023
Belfast’s heroin epidemic, are overdose prevention centres a solution?
25 mins; March 14, 2023
Michael Carroll, Lottery win disasters and how to avoid them
24 mins; March 12, 2023
Noel Johnston: The life and crimes of Ballymena’s 'Cocaine King'
24 mins; March 09, 2023
Bonus: NI's first referendum on a United Ireland, 50 year ago
23 mins; March 08, 2023
Kim Jong-un's North Korea: Assassinations, nuclear tensions and the child heiress to the throne
17 mins; March 07, 2023
John DeLorean: The rise and fall of the man who brought the future back to Belfast
24 mins; March 05, 2023
The murder of Robert McCartney and the IRA cover up
36 mins; March 02, 2023
What is the Windsor Framework and will it be enough for the DUP?
29 mins; March 01, 2023
Allison Morris on the New IRA threat after Omagh shooting
23 mins; February 28, 2023
‘The Firm’ - Lurgan and Portadown’s cross-community crime gang
17 mins; February 26, 2023
What makes a serial killer and why are we fascinated by them?
22 mins; February 23, 2023
High profile PSNI detective critical after suspected New IRA gun attack
12 mins; February 23, 2023
Sean Fox: Drugs boss murdered ‘after protection money for dissidents not passed on’
19 mins; February 21, 2023
Wagner: Putin's private army of prisoners
25 mins; February 19, 2023
Nicola Sturgeon: why has the Scottish FM decided to go?
19 mins; February 16, 2023
Nicola Bulley: Rumours rife as mother of two remains missing
18 mins; February 16, 2023
Submarines and secret planes: How Dublin's Kinahans and other cartels are smuggling drugs
16 mins; February 14, 2023
Sam McBride quizzes Paul Gosling, the Englishman arguing for Irish unity
41 mins; February 12, 2023
Stephen Fulton, the wife-killer forced to resign from top Orange Order position
16 mins; February 09, 2023
Enoch Burke: What is the Mayo evangelical Christian trying to achieve?
18 mins; February 08, 2023
‘Mo’ Courtney, the UDA, and trouble brewing on the Shankill
18 mins; February 05, 2023
Eoin McGonigal - Paddy Mayne’s best friend and SAS original
24 mins; February 02, 2023
Lucid Talk poll reveals unionists have turned against Good Friday Agreement
41 mins; January 31, 2023
Meet the Burkes - The evangelical family from Mayo at the centre of controversy
23 mins; January 29, 2023
True Crime: Robert Black, the making of a child serial killer
21 mins; January 26, 2023
Andrew Tate: Who is this champion of toxic masculinity?
22 mins; January 24, 2023
How spy Dennis McFadden and MI5 controlled a human rights group fronted by Gerry Conlon
31 mins; January 22, 2023
Stephen Nolan on Jamie Bryson, money, and his longing for a family (Part 2)
50 mins; January 19, 2023
Stephen Nolan: Sam McBride’s exclusive with ‘biggest journo in the country’ (Part 1)
51 mins; January 17, 2023
Prince Harry: What is he playing at?
24 mins; January 15, 2023
Allison Morris on the murder of Natalie McNally and the scourge of femicide
29 mins; January 12, 2023
Crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried and Newry’s millionaire wonderkid
29 mins; January 10, 2023
1998: Talks, an agreement and Mo Mowlam
32 mins; January 08, 2023
Lord Lucan, the horrific murder, his Irish links and could a man in Australia really be him?
21 mins; January 05, 2023
“My Name is Joseph”: How a young Belfast man lost his life in prison
17 mins; January 03, 2023
Best of the BelTel: Dennis Donaldson, Britain's agent at the heart of Sinn FĂ©in and the IRA
21 mins; January 01, 2023
The Best of the BelTel: What happened to Lisa Dorrian?
28 mins; December 29, 2022
Best of the BelTel: Murdered in prison - How the INLA killed Billy Wright
23 mins; December 27, 2022
Best of the BelTel: ‘King Rat’, Billy Wright’s rise as a loyalist icon and LVF chief
24 mins; December 25, 2022
2022, a massive year for news, profound change and not short of farce
41 mins; December 22, 2022
Best of the BelTel: Inside the mind of Hazel Stewart
24 mins; December 21, 2022
Best of the BelTel: The story of the Castlereagh Raid
19 mins; December 18, 2022
Downfall: Sean Quinn, the Cavan Versailles and the wrath of the fairies
19 mins; December 15, 2022
Colin Harvey makes the case for a United Ireland
41 mins; December 13, 2022
Lee Reynolds makes the case for the Union
37 mins; December 11, 2022
The complex legacy of SAS legend Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne
20 mins; December 08, 2022
Newry gangland murder sparks fears of further bloodshed
24 mins; December 06, 2022
Wrightbus and Green Pastures in the headlines as court actions begun against the company directors and the mega-church
26 mins; December 04, 2022
The Loyalist Flag Protests, 10 years on
30 mins; December 01, 2022
The Peru Two: From dancer to drug smuggler, the Michaela McCollum story
23 mins; November 29, 2022
Unsolved: The murder of Marian Beattie
27 mins; November 27, 2022
Sam McBride on the new details which have emerged in the NAMA controversy
39 mins; November 24, 2022
Prisons are filled with men and not women - is it that men are simply more likely to be 'evil'?
27 mins; November 22, 2022
Monica McWilliams tells the story of the Northern Ireland Womens’ Coalition
27 mins; November 20, 2022
Suzanne Breen talks polls, politics and parties and whether ‘joint authority’ is a runner
29 mins; November 17, 2022
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